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 most common
spellings:
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 52,000 individual records on the computer as of Fall 2008. We encourage members and non-members to submit information on their family lines, as well as their genealogical research queries. Computer printouts are available by contacting the Society’s historian, Sally V. Sondesky.
The Van Zandt Record is the Society’s primary form of communication. Find out more about joining the Society and receiving your copy of the newsletter. Join the Society
The extended Van Zandt family gets together for a reunion in a different part of the country each year. See photos from the recent reunion held in Philadelphia in October 2008.
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