Project: Belgium/Resources

Resources for Belgian Research

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Contents 1 Resources 1.1 The State Archives in Belgium 1.2 FamilySearch 2 Related Projects

Resources

Wikipedia: Articles Related to Belgium

Family Search: Belgian Genealogy

Ancestry.com: Belgium Family History Research Page

Cyndi's List: Belgium

WorldGenWeb: BelgiumGenWeb

The U.S. Library of Congress: Belgium & Belgian Collections

Belgian National Archives:

• Agatha, De online zoekomgeving van het Rijksarchief in België. The online search environment of the State Archives in Belgium.
  • Agatha, Genealogische bronnen. Genealogical sources.
• State Archives of Belgium

Belgian National Library: The Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)

The State Archives in Belgium

• Access through https://search.arch.be. Free registration is required.
• Civil status registers
  • First select the province, then the municipality or sub-municipality
  • Birth, marriage and death records/indices
  • ±1790 - ±1920: municipalities had to hold civil registers since the French revolution. For privacy reasons, only records older than 100 years are available (last update in March 2018)
• Church registers
  • First select the province , then the parish (parishes don't always match with municipalities, sometimes you'll need to look into different parishes
  • Baptism, marriage and burial records/indices
  • ±1550 - ±1800, depending on the place.

FamilySearch

• Access through https://www.familysearch.org. Free registration is required.
• Offers largely the same records as the State Archives, but is partially indexed
• Offers a convenient way for source citations: just copy and paste the citation at the bottom of the "Information" tab below the record
• How to find the links to unindexed digitized images of registry entries in the FamilySearch database
• Shortcuts to collections per province (digitized records through the link at the bottom of these pages): (update : these collection pages are no longer maintained/updated and cover only public archives 1797 and 1906, for recent additions 1900-1920 an updated search strategy will be published shortly)
  • Province of Antwerp ,
  • Province of Brabant (Flemish and Walloon Brabants, plus Brussels) ,
  • Province of East Flanders ,
  • Province of Hainaut,
  • Province of Liège,
  • Province of Limburg,
  • Province of Luxembourg,
  • Province of Namur,
  • Province of West Flanders,

Related Projects

Many Belgians have connections to France, Germany and the Netherlands, so we collaborate closely with these projects:

• the France Project
• the Germany Project
• Het Nederlands Portaal - The Dutch Portal
• the Netherlands Project
• the New Netherlands Settlers

For Belgian notables, nobility and aristocrats we collaborate with:

• the European Aristocrats Project
• the Notables Project

If you'd like to start a one-name or one-place study related to Belgium, have a look at these projects, and make sure to let us know on g2g!

• the One Name Studies Project
• the One Place Studies Project

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