BELGIUM-ROOTS Project District Ghent (East-Flanders) Municipality Ghent Outline related to Belgian Emigration

Description

This page will describe the city after the administrative changes after 1963.

Territorial Subdivisions

• Gent (1795-present)

  The city of Ghent has been regulary, from 1876 on, enlarged with parts of the surrounding municipalities.

  The city is now divided in districts (click here for a map).

  And click here for a clickable map of the statistical sectors (used for statistical purposes, but corresponding with hamlets). See a description (in Dutch) for:

  the use of this sectors with the census of 1970 and 1981,

  the relation of this sectors to the 9 police area and the 60 neighborhoods in 1970 and

  how a conversion was done in 1980 to integrate the 10 municipalities attached to the city in 1977.

  The following municipalities where attached to the city:

  in 1965: Destelbonk, Mendonk, Sint-Kruis-Winkel

  in 1977: Afsnee, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Oostakker, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Wondelgem, Zwijnaarde, Sint-Amandsberg.

• Ancien Régime (until 1795)

  Ghent was one of the four main cities of the Earldom "County of Flanders".

Short History with Bibliography

Sources

• Parish registers

  • Parish Sint-Stephanus (Gent) by Daniel Verkerken.

Repositories

• City archives

  Archives of the City Gent

Societies

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

• Languages

  • Example: Google

    Portal page of Google in the local dialect ...

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\4ovl\44\44021\index.html (bel_vov) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:47:21 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:11:00 MST