Genealogy in Belgium: The essential cheat sheet for your research

Find all the useful resources for your genealogical research in Belgium: archives, databases, and tips, at a glance.

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Archives in Belgium

To guide you: GeneaWiki - Genealogical research in Belgium  

State Archives in Belgium

Parish registers - Civil status 

Map and historical documents of the cadastre

Help: Searching for people in Belgium

Online resources 

CegeSoma - Center for Studies and Documentation on the War and Contemporary Belgian Society

Genealogy and Databases - West Flanders

Database Akten West-Vlaanderen

Patronymica Romanica - Database of contemporary names in Belgium

Genealogical databases for Brussels and Paris

Viewing of Civil Status Acts in the Famenne-Ardennes, Condroz and Gaume-Lorraine regions of Belgium

The Belgian Researchers, Inc.

Grand-Leez

Migrations to and from Belgium

Immigration in Belgium

History of immigration in Belgium

History of immigration in Belgium. Ups and downs of projects for a museum.

Immibel: Immigration in Belgium in the 19th century

The migratory transition in industrial Belgium between the two world wars

Emigrants, immigrants from Belgium: when, how, why? 

Belgium in pictures

Archival photos

cartophilie.be

Photographs from World War I

BALaT - Photo Library

Old Belgium - Namur between 1890 and 1935

Namur - Old photos

Old maps of the country

Cartesius

OldMapsOnline - Belgium

Old maps of Belgium and the province of Hainaut

Wallonia Geoportal

Useful genealogy sites for Belgium

Online help 

GeneaFrancoBelge

Geneasens - Genealogical research in Belgium

Facebook Group: Genealogy for everyone in Belgium

Video: Archives and Culture - Genealogy in Belgium

Association sites 

List of Genealogy Associations in Belgium by province

Royal Genealogical and Heraldic Office of Belgium 

Service for Centralization of Genealogical and Demographic Studies in Belgium 

GEPHIL Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse 

History, Archeology and Genealogy Circle of Wavre and Walloon Brabant 

History and Genealogy Circle of Beauvechain and Grez-Doiceau

Genealogical Association of the Belgian Hainaut

Genealogical and Historical Association of Flanders-Hainaut

Genealogical Group of the Nord Region

Genealo Nord - Pas-de-Calais - Aisne - Belgium Project

Regional Union of Genealogical Associations Nord - Pas-de-Calais and Belgium

SCGD - Service for Centralization of Genealogical and Demographic Studies in Belgium

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