User talk:SuzannedeRGT/sandbox

Adding to "the origin of the Surname Zondervan". My Dutch mother told me that it was invented by an immigrant from the Netherlands to the USA, early in the 1900's.  "Zonder van"  means "without van", which often denotes a person from the 'nobility', just as 'de' in French does. Therefore, facetiously, this Immigrant starting a new life in the 'classless new country', declared that his Surname was... Zondervan i.e. without any connotation to his status.