The Vanderkloot Story

Introduction

Reader Tips

by Dave Jordan

The Vanderkloot Story has been placed on Our Vanderkloot Family web pages and The Tanis Story has been placed on Our Tanis Family web pages easy distribution and updates.

The home address for Our Vanderkloot Family web pages is: http://homepage.mac.com/ourhistory/Vanderkloot/

The home address for Our Tanis Family web pages is: http://homepage.mac.com/ourhistory/Tanis/

Frequency of Updates

Current stories may occasionally be updated with new information and a date tag will show the latest date of the various stories. As new stories become available they will be added. Readers may wish to check the What's New page to easily identify when material has been added.

Printing

Some of the stories are too lengthy to be read on-line and you may wish to print rather than reading from the screen. When printing, your browser may allow you to adjust the font and font sizes which are set in your browser's preferences. You may also wish to experiment with your percent reduction command to fit it just right to your page. In the future, a "pdf" version will be available to enable more controlled printing; however, this may be a while since I want to wait until the text settles down and adds and fixes become infrequent.

Related Information

While it's possible to just read the Stories, there is much companion information contained in the Topics Section on Our Vanderkloot Family home page and also on Our Tanis Family home page.  Topics include: Address Data, Census Data, Family Overview Pages, Family Charts, Genealogy Source Records and Photos.

Connections

Many readers will most likely be offspring of one of the Vanderkloot, or Tanis families. It may be helpful to consult Our Vanderkloot Family Overview page or Our Tanis Family Overview page to figure out which family you are from and to learn some of the names and relationships. My purpose was not to create a detailed genealogy of all the offspring, so you may need to do a little research to first work your way back to a couple of original families. If you can't figure it out, drop me a line and I may be able to get you onto the right family.

The key families included in The Vanderkloot Story are:

  1. The Adrianus and Martha Vanderkloot Family: Their children are: Matthew (1883), Art (1885), Adrian (1889), Aletta (1891), Grace (1894), and Marie (1899). Their current offspring number in the hundreds. In case you are wondering, Adrianus and Martha are my great-grandparents.
  2. The Matthijs and Trijntje Vanderkloot Family: Their 10 children are: Adrianus (1852), Klaas (1854), Marinus (1855), Aagtje (1857), Pieter (1860), Maatje (1862), Matthijs (1866, Jannetje (1868), Cornelius (1870), and Jan (1873). My great-grandfather, Adrianus was their first son.
  3. The Marinus and Meis Vanderkloot Family: Their children are: Adrianus (1949), Dirkje (1855), Teunis (1857), Matthijs R. (1860), John V. (1861), Peter Simon (1862), Mary S. (1863), Olive C. (1865) and Marinus (1866). Marinus was the founder of the Vanderkloot Ironworks and his son Adrianus later was president of the South Halsted Street Iron Works where all the Vanderkloots worked. Their current offspring number in the hundreds.

In general, any Vanderkloot in America that knows their origins are from late 1800s in Chicago should be able to link back to one of the listed Vanderkloot families.

The key families included in The Tanis Story are:

  1. The Aart and Dirkje Tanis Family: Their children are: Kornelia (1855), Martha (1857), Dirkje (1858), Geertje (1859), Dirk (1861), Cornelius (1862), and Maatje (1864). This family is included because of the marriage of Martha Tanis and Adrianus Vanderkloot, my great-grandparents.
Dutch Naming Custom

Because of a Dutch custom of naming their children after grandparents and great-grandparents in an almost mechanical way, many first cousins have the exact same name. The method also causes subsequent generations to have the same first name. If you start getting confused on who's who, consider visiting the Our Vanderkloot Family home page and the associated Overview Pages and Family Charts.

New Information

I am always looking for new information so if you can add any stories, anecdotes, or pictures it would be appreciated. If you wish to make a contribution, please contact Dave via e-mail.

Notes
  1. Initial Web Publication Date: late 2000
  2. Modified: 03/12/2006, 11/25/2009
  3. Desktop Master file: Stories_Vanderkloot