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WalvoordHistory.comThe Website dedicated to Walvoord/Walvoort Family History"If you ain't Dutch, you ain't much!"
Note: Photo Albums now available. I am still
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Sorry for the
inconvienence. I have recieved some really
exciting "new" old photos and you should be able to see some new
content soon! Thanks for visiting walvoordhistory.com!
 Welcome to the Walvoord Family History Homepage. My name is Scott Anthony Walvoord (born in Amarillo, Texas, and currently living in Nashville, Tennessee) and I research Walvoord Family History. I have genealogical records on over 500 persons born with the WALVOORD/WALVOORT name and their families.
In June of 1995, I mailed out an inquiry to the 100 Walvoords in the U.S. that have phone listings. Some came back with bad addresses, and some were not returned. However, of the ones that were returned, much information was received.
After visiting Aalten, Gelderland, in the Netherlands in the Spring of 1997, I am convinced that most all persons with the WALVOORD or WALVOORT name living in America and most living in Holland are related to each other. Most of us (American and Dutch) are descended from Derk Anthonij Walvoort (b. 10-November-1748) and Janna Beestman (m. on 3-September-1775). Others are related one generation further back when the family name changes to Geessink.
At least four of Derk Anthonij Walvoort`s grandsons, consisting of three brothers and one cousin, settled in America. Two of the brothers (J.D. and Dirk Anthony) and the one cousin (Hendrik) settled on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin in 1848 after Wisconsin became the 30th state. The third brother (Gerrit Jan) settled in Nebraska in 1870, five years after the Civil War ended.
I am publishing Walvoord Family History on the Web and would love to hear from you. I have written about 70 pages of narrative mainly about Hendrik Walvoord`s descendants, and will get most of it posted on this site at some point in the near future.
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