BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Belgian emigrant families made the journey abroad The departure from home Outline related to Belgian Immigrants

• General

  • Jean Ducat:

    List of emigrant surnames from Belgium to the USA in 1855 and 1856

  • Georges Picavet:

    List of emigrant surnames from the Waasland to Canada and the USA

    A genealogical database with information on some 75,000 individuals living or having lived in the Waasland between 1600 and now, including information from official and private sources on some 3,000 of emigrants from the Waasland. The core of the database is the population of Verrebroek, one of the villages in the Waasland. Click here for more info.

• Voyage between the port of destination and the country of destination

  • Belgium into France

  • Belgium into Great-Britain

  • Belgium into the Netherlands

• Interior travel

  • The railways

    Railway maps 19th century (RaumaRail Site)

    Central Europe, Low Countries, Russia, ...

    Documentatie Center NMBS - Centre Documentation SNCB

• Hotels and boarding houses

  • Aid to the emigrants in transit

    Société Belge de l'Archange Raphaël - Oeuvre Protectrice des Emigrants

• Ports of departure

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\migr\emig\index.html (br_migr_emig) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:48:45 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:12:53 MST