Description

Official website (Dutch)

Territorial Subdivisions

This province is subdivided in two districts:

• District Leuven
• District Halle-Vilvoorde

Short History with Bibliography

• General

• Contemporary history

  • Belgian Era

  • Dutch Era

    See also the history of the "United Kingdom of the Netherlands" (Southern Provinces).

  • French Era

    See also the history of the French "13 Reunited Departements".

• Ancien Régime

  See mainly the history of the Duchy of Brabant.

Sources

Repositories

• GeneaBrabant

  On this site you will find transcriptions about some parishes of the South of the province, between Brussels and Leuven: Neerijse, Huldenberg, Ottenburg, Sint-Agatha-Rode, Sint-Joris-Weert, Korbeek-Dijle, Duisburg, Vossem, Loonbeek.

• Actagena

  Genealogy site for the East of the province (Hageland).

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.

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

This web site is the collective work of the subscribers to the mail list BELGIUM-ROOTS-L founded June 1998 by Georges Picavet (see our members page and the copyrights page for more info) Q:\webbeta\rw_belgiumroots\bel\2vlb\index.html (bel_vbr) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:49:03 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:10:37 MST