In a message dated 4/10/05 Nancee writes: > If you, as a tourist, have a chance to glance into a Pella phone book, it > will be an itneresting study for you.  Be sure to turn to the section of V > -- there is a preponderance of Van, Vander, etc. -- almost 600 of them! > One time, back in the '50s, I looked through the Pella phone book. Of the 19 pages in it at the time, 11 had names starting with "v". Dave Werts