BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Sciences Folklore and the study of daily life Outline related to Belgian Immigrants

• General

  • Rural Flanders in the 18th and 19th Century
    The site to visit if you want to know more about the social-economical context in th 19th century, that motivated so many to emigrate ... . by Marcel Blanchaer, an active member of our Team.

• Family life

  • Birth and christening

  • Confirmation

  • Marriage

  • Burial

• Society Life

  • Housing and construction of houses

  • Kermis, Carnival, Fairs, Parades, and Processions

    • Dance halls in Belgium (1999)
    • Dance halls in French Flanders (1999)

  • Occupations

    • Lists

      • List of occupations (with translations)
      • Beroepen van toen (in Dutch)
      • Beroepen 1899 (Census Netherlands 1899) (in Dutch)

    • Beguines

      • Begijnhof van Antwerpen by Paul Cornelis, an active member of our Team (text and links)
      • Begijnhof van Kortrijk (image)
      • Beguines and Beghards (text)

    • Glassblowers

      • Belgian Glassblowers in Meadville (USA, PA, Crawford Co.)
      • The Glass-Workers of Vincennes (USA, Indiana, Knox Co)
      • MSN group: Belgian Glassworkers

    • Millers

      • Belgium
    • Peddlers

    • Peddlers

      • Statuten van de Aalsterse blauwververs en garentwijnders uit 1704 By-laws of the "blauwververs" and "garentwijnders" in Aalst (1704)(Old Dutch)

• Daily life

  • Eating and drinking

    • Recipes

      Belgian Recipes and Traditions by Theresa

    • Beer

      Nick Bruels spends time in Belgium "... I've "always been interested" in the Benelux, for art and history reasons. The beer and cuisine (no need to distinguish between the two, really, they're inseparable) are just a nice bonus for me. We decided on 10 nights in Brugge, since it looked so nice (supremely well preserved-- as opposed to restored), is the capital of West Flanders, and is historically important. ..."

    • International

      The Food Timeline by the Morris County Library, NJ USA

  • Clothing

  • Hygiene

• Image Libraries

  • Churches, cemeteries, ...around the Centre of Europe by José Schoovaerts, an active member of our Team
  • De Oude Doos - Het Vlaamse Platteland
    Photos from around 1950 of houses, people, ... , published by the Flemish newspaper "Gazet van Antwerpen", for a whole list of towns on the countryside of Flanders, as it was before the golden sixties (1958-1973). Site in Dutch, but few text and many photos.
  • Some images of churches, beguinages, ... in the former County of Flanders

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\sci\folklore\index.html (br_sci) This Global file was last updated 18/01/2007 23:48:43 CET and uploaded Thursday, 18-Jan-2007 16:14:07 MST