BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Flemish Region (Belgium) Province Limburg Outline related to Belgian emigration

Description

Territorial Subdivisions

• This province is subdivided in 3 administrative districts:
  • Distr. Hasselt
  • Distr. Maaseik
  • Distr. Tongeren
• Overview of the municipalties of Belgian Limburg, with their names in local Limburgish dialect by Roger Thijs

Short History with Bibliography

• General

  Short history (in Dutch by Luc Klaps)

• 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 Prince-Bishopric of Liege.

Sources

• Civil records

  • Marriages

    List of marriage records in the Province Limburg (until ca 1900)

Repositories

Societies

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

• Web sites

  • Buckman/Knutson Family Tree by Bonnie Kae Knutson

    Surnames: CLAESSEN, OP DE LOCHT and DECKER

  • Lilmburg Families by Jean-Pierre Van Eygen

Sciences

• Onomastics

  • Limburgish Municipalities Overview of the municipalties of Belgian Limburg, with their names in local Limburgish dialect by Roger Thijs

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\7lim\index.html (br_bel_vli) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:49:01 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:11:30 MST