BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Flemish Region (Belgium) Province West-Flanders Outline related to Belgian Emigration

Description

Territorial Subdivisions

This province is subdivided in the following administrative districts:

• District Brugge
• District Diksmuide
• District Ieper
• District Kortrijk
• District Oostende
• District Roeselare
• District Tielt
• District Veurne

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 County of Flanders.

Sources

Repositories

Societies

• Genealogical associations

  • VVF West-Vlaanderen (Dutch)

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

• Genealogies of families Beernaert, Bernaert, ... and related families (Dutch/English),

  with branches in Lichtervelde, Rumbeke and Izegem.

  and other related families as Maeyens (Knesselare), Goethals (West-Flanders), Vercruysse (Kachtem), Dejonghe (Ardooie) and Van Renterghem (Zwevezele).

  by Ivan Beernaert Ivan Beernaert

• Ancestry of the Jansen Daughters (partly from towns in the West-Flanders)
• Edmond DUPON (1877-1947) (Ichtegem, West-Flanders -> Chicago, USA)
• List of SINNAEVE events (births, etc ...) (spreadsheet) by Mary WIlson

Sciences

• Onomastics

  Surname Beernaert

  by Ivan Beernaert

• Folklore and the study of daily life

  • Daily Life

    Rural Belgium in the XIXth century

    by Marcel Blanchaer

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