Belgium Area

An American Descendant's Perspective

32% of all Country Visitors to this Web Site were from Belgium.

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Link - Belgian Tourist Office

Link - All about Belgium - Table of Contents (English)
Link - Belgium Facts ~ EU business
Link - Tout sur la Belgique - table des matières (French) (with reference list)

Link - Alles Over België - inhoudstafel (Dutch) (with reference list)

Government
Link - Administrative Organization of Belgium (1794-1814)
Link - Embassy of Belgium in Britain Belgian UK embassy provides contact information for the consulate,
military attache, agriculture and business departments, and travel agencies.
Link - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development Aid Federal department provides info on Belgium's
economic, diplomatic, strategic, and military relationships with the rest of the world.
Link - Some statistical publications can be ordered (but not accessed) ~ Federal Institute of Statistics (NIS/INS)

Link - Visitor Information

SEARCH
Link - SEARCH Engine Colossus ~ International Directory of Search Engines

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Genealogy and History

Link - Ajatasse's Home Page
Link - Belgian Personal Genealogy Pages

Link - Belgian Funeral Cards
Link - Belgian Recipes and Traditions / Chat / Message Board
Link - Belgium Roots Links & Notes
Link - Beguinage, The
Link - Belgium: Overview
Link - Belgische Digitale Steden

Link - Commune Mergers
Link - Cyndi's List

Link - Digital Resources ~ Netherlands and Belgium by Herman de Wit
Link - Digitale Stamboom ~ Digital Family Tree ~ available in English
~ "From here you can refer to the indexes of the most frequently consulted sources for genealogial research:
The register of baptism, burial and marriage of the churches in Delft and Pijnacker up to 1811
~ The registers of birth, death and marriage of Registry Offices of the following municipalities: Delft,
Hof van Delft, Groeneveld, Hoog en Woud Harnasch, 't Woudt, Vrijenban, Abtsregt,
Ackersdijk en Vrouwenregt, Biesland, Pijnacker (birth and death certificates)"

Link - Family Explorer Benelux

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Link - Genealogy
Link - GeneaNet ~ la page genealogique de Gilbert Minette
Link - GeneaNet ~ Belgium ~ French ~ Vous êtes sur l'antenne belge de GeneaNet International
Link - GensData-BBS op het Internet

Immigrants / Emigrants : U.S.A : Arrivals from Belgium ~ Immigration/Emigration-U.S.A. Page
Immigrants/Emigrants ~ Passengers & Ships Page
Immigration/Emigration-U.S.A. Page
Languages & Words ~ References Page
Passengers & Ships Page

Link - Kevin Duernck Genealogy Home Page ~ scroll down

Migration
Link - BELGIUM-ROOTS Project

Newsletters

Link - Research Guidelines ~ Belgium-Roots Project
Link - Rulers, Guide and Index to Lists of
Link - Sites généraux belges
Link - RootsWeb-Genealogy Lesson26 ~ Germanic, Austrian, Dutch, Belgians, Liechtensteiners,
Luxembourgers, Swiss
Link - Varman Genealogy Site

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Local

Events
Link - GENT DAY

Link - Low Countries, The ~ Lists the real rulers (legal or not) for all main counties, duchies
(BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS and LUXEMBOURG)
Link - Places in Belgium ~ BELGIUM-ROOTS Project
Link - Municipalities & Communities ~ Belgium Roots Project

Belgian Graphics Page
[See two alphabetical pages of Photo Thumbnails for towns, churches, landscapes, maps, memorials, etc.]

Bokrijk
Link - Bokrijk, The Provinciaal Domein/Tour ~ photos
Brabant
Link - East-Braband Work-Group Index "...has almost all records between 1574 and 1900 of the
parishes in the area between Leuven, Aarschot, Diest and Tienen"
Link - Walloon Brabant, History of ~ Timeline & History
Link - Walloon Brabant
Link - Flemish Brabant
Brussels
Link - Brussels-Capital Region, 19 communes of
Link - Brussels-Capital Region
Link - Manneken Pis
Charleroi
Link - Ville de Charleroi

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Flanders
Link - Genealogy in Flanders - Belgium
Link - Statistics ~ Click on Statistiek, on the next page on "BASISSTATISTIEKEN VLAANDEREN",
and then on "Nog meer statistieken (gemeenten, arrondissementen, provincies, Vlaanderen)"
On that page you will find some spreadsheet files, as: "Bevolkingsaantallen in de Vlaamse gemeenten op
1 januari 1999 " (Population of the municipalities in 1998 and 1999), ...
You can also find some maps in this statistics section.
Link - Photos ~ Flemish newspaper "Gazet van Antwerpen"
~ series of pages named "Het Vlaamse Platteland
Grez-Doiceau [Graven]
Link - Grez-Doiceau [Graven] Municipality ~ Belgium-Roots Project
Lier
Link - Lier
Louvain/Leuven
Link - Groot begijnhof Leuven ~ Also MAP
Mechelen
Link - Archives in Mechelen
Link - VVF
Waasland
Land van Waas (Pays de Waes) Region - Located in the northeast of the province East-Flanders,
to the west of the Schelde estuary
Link - The Emigrants from the Waasland to the United States and Canada 1830 - 1950

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Names

Surnames : Area
Link - GenBase de Genealogische Databank
Researched by the BELGIUM-ROOTS Mail List Subscribers
~ Surnames Listed Alphabetically ~ Researcher's E-Mail Address included
Link - BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Surnames Lists

Surnames : Distributions
Link - Patronomyca Romanica database
Link - Sciences Onomastics ~ Other surname distribution database ~ BELGIUM-ROOTS Project

Surnames : Individual
Link - Beernaert
Link - Bruggeman, George & Phyllis, Home Page
Link - Buyck Genealogy
Link - de Baere ~ Website of the de Barere Family
Link - de Wit, Herman Genealogical Homepage
Link - Duerinck, Deerinck, Durinck, Duerink, Duerinckx, Dierick, Duericx, Dieringer, Dueringer, During, Etc.
Link - Huijbregts-van Sikkelerus - Gen3
Link - MABELIS (listed with van de WOESTIJNE)
MATTHYS RootsWeb Mail List - Subscribe (body of E-Mail)
~ DIGEST E-Mail mode or REGULAR E-Mail mode
Link - Ron(c)ken Family
Link - Schoovaerts.J. Home Page ~ Schoovaerts/Schoevaerts
Link - Bossche's, Sharon & Dennis Surnames
Link - Thijs/Thys Surnames ... in Belgium ~ [great info!]
VANDENBERGHE RootsWeb Mail List - Subscribe (body of E-Mail)
~ DIGEST E-Mail mode or REGULAR E-Mail mode
Link - van de WOESTIJNE and MABELIS * my ancestry * ~ Web Site on RootsWeb
Link - Vanden Bossche, Remery, Van Wynsberghe
Link - Varman Genealogy Site

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Organizations

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Link - Belgian Researchers, The
Link - Belgian American Heritage ~ Father Ducat
Link or Link - GSFA (Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans)

Link - GENIWAL ~ CLICK ON - 'Logiciels' - for more information ~ The GENIWAL Association is in the
process of organizing more than 45,200 [as of 02 Dec 1999] death announcements from Belgium with
the help of volunteers who are encoding information from both the North and South of newspapers and
private collections for information beginning in the year 1900. This database is to be published on CD-ROM.

Link - USFIA ~ Page de titre
~ Banque de données généalogiques pour la Belgique Francophone

VVF
Link - Genealogy in Belgium
Link - Genealogy On-line ~ Links and SEARCH

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Repositories

Link - Primary Documents

ARCHIVES

Link - Antwerpen Archives - Dutch Version ~ Digitaal Stadsarchief Antwerpen
~ Emigration from Antwerp to the USA, booklet with addresses list, references & description of available
sources of Belgian, Dutch and USA archives.
Page 1) Click on - zoeken (right upper corner) for search page.
Page 2) Click on - overig (upper left) for search input box.
Page 3) Key in - - emigration in the box "Titel" (middle of page),then click on ~ ZOEKEN.
Page 4) Click on - emigration (engels) for 28-page PDF file A5.
(Brochure text - no images)
Link - Antwerpen Archives - ENGLISH Version
Link - Belgium, Netherlands, France by Janssen
Link - Liege - Archives

Link - Belgian Privacy Protection Commission - Homepage

Link - Belgian Repositories ~ Belgium-Roots Project

Social Security
Link - KSZ-BCSS ~ Crossroads Banks for Social Security

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