Belgium Research Tips and Strategies

Belgium Wiki Topics
Beginning Research
Research Strategies Record Finder Finding Towns of Origin
Record Types
Cemeteries Census Church History Church Records Civil Registration Directories Emigration and Immigration Genealogies Jewish Records Land and Property Military Records	Naturalization and Citizenship Notarial Records Occupations Online Genealogy Records Online Indexes Periodicals Poorhouses, Poor Law, etc. Probate Records Religious Records School Records Taxation
Belgium Background
Dutch Words List French Word List Gazetteers German Genealogical Word List	History Languages Latin Genealogical Word List Maps For Further Reading
Local Research Resources
Archives and Libraries Societies Family History Centers
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Belgium

Research Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page

The Belgium Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Belgium. It also contains general tips and other resources for locating your ancestors in this locality.

Belgium Research Strategies

• A Strategy to Identify your Ancestors
• Record Finder: a summary to know where to find information.
• A Guide to find the Town of Origin for migrants from Belgium.

Belgium Research Tips

• Do not rush back in time. It takes time before you get used to the handwriting of older texts. If you go back too quickly, the documents will be difficult to read.
• Not all documents are in the same language. The first names are often translated into the language of the text.
• The civil registration was introduced during the French revolution, the earliest records used the calendar of the French republic, which is completely different from the Gregorian calendar.
• Add sources. This takes a few seconds at first, but makes it easy to check later. Each record contains a lot of information, some of it might interest you in the future.