Description

Territorial Subdivisions

Municipalities (1977):

Aarschot, Begijnendijk, Bekkevoort, Bertem, Bierbeek, Boortmeerbeek, Boutersem, Diest, Geetbets, Glabbeek-Zuurbembe, Haacht, Herent, Hoegaarden, Holsbeek, Huldenberg, Keerbergen, Kortenaken, Kortenberg, Landen, Leuven, Linter, Lubbeek, Oud-Heverlee, Rotselaar, Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, Tervuren, Tielt-Winge, Tienen, Tremelo, Zoutleeuw

Short History with Bibliography

• History

  • Duchy of Lorraine and Leuven
  • City of Leuven

• Bibliography

Sources

Repositories

Societies

• Genealogical Societies

  • VVF Flemish Brabant

    The VVF is the major genealogical society in Flanders, and the only with branches in all provinces and districts. This VVF Provincial Chapter is very active, it was the first with his own internet site (after VVF - Genealogy & Computing), has an online periodical, and is beginning to produce a serie of important indexes. But it's in Dutch. Some of their active members are also subscribed to the BELGIUM-ROOTS mail list.

    Local Branches: Aarschot, Huldenberg (partial), Leuven (partial) and Tienen,

• Genealogical Publishers

  • Actagena

    This Genealogical Work-group in East-Brabant (webmaster: Frans Vandenbosch ) has almost all records between 1574 and 1900 of the parishes in the area between Leuven, Aarschot, Diest and Tienen

    Click here for a summary, with the list of published parishes.

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

• Onomastics

  • Place names in Utsenaken (Oplinter) (Dutch)

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