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The Van Zandt Society

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The Van Zandt Society was founded in 1969 with these objectives: to strengthen the ties of kinship and fellowship between living members of the family;to maintain unity in the family through frequent association of members in a social way; to perpetuate the memory and the genealogy of our ancestors through genealogical research and by unifying all genealogical, historical, and biographical research necessary to compile complete and accurate family records.

The first president was the late Dwight B. Van Zandt, whose family descends from Adam Wensel Van Zandt and his son Johannes, who set out for New Amsterdam (New York) from Holland in 1658. The crest of Dwight’s family, which appears in this web site, was adopted by the Society.

The Society devotes its energies to continuing genealogical research on the various family lines, including the varied spellings:
Van Zandt
Van Zant
Van Sant
Van Sandt
and variations such as Van Zauen
Census takers in the early days wrote the names as they heard them!

The Society serves as a resource for family history through its computer system. There are more than 20,000 individual records on the computer at this time. We encourage members and non-members to send in information on their family lines, as well as their queries. Computer print-outs are available.

The Van Zandt Record is published three times a year and mailed to members. We print genealogical queries at no charge for members and non-members seeking their Van Zandt roots, news of present-day Van Zandt(all spellings) families, stories of historic figures in the Van Zandt past, and announcements of reunions.

The “family” gets together for a reunion annually in some part of the country. Our next one will be October 15-17, 2001 at the Holiday Inn, Boardwalk in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hotel price per night: $65.00 plus tax. There is an activity package for $120.00 which includes meals and area tours, including Hoover Dam. Make reservations by calling 1-800-635-4581 before September 1, 2001. For further information please contact:

Marilyn Tori
3093 Ash Mill Road, P.O. Box 40
Holicong, PA
18928 or E-Mail: muriel@netcarrier.com

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