Twelve Favorite Belgium and Luxembourg Genealogy Websites

My ancestry is one quarter Belgian and one quarter Luxembourg.  Adding to that, my husband’s family is from Alsace Lorraine, France. My father was born in Belgium.  French was his first language. As a child, when relatives were over, that’s all I heard, even with an American mother.

 Luckily, way back in the 1950’s my public grade school (yes you read that right) began an experimental program of teaching French to all students starting in second grade.  It continued through high school.  All this has helped my research considerably, including hours and hours of translations.  Since most of my research is in French speaking countries, I teach French genealogy classes, covering the countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, France, Northern Italy and their surrounding areas.

In the future, my blog entries will give you more information about these countries and the genealogy available.  To start, I will list my favorite websites for Belgium and Luxembourg genealogy research.  Let me know if you know of any more websites to add to this list: 

 Belgium

http://search.arch.be/ - The archives website.  It includes church, civil, military and notary records.

http://search.arch.be/fr/tips/98-registresparoissiaux - pre 1800 church records 

http://search.arch.be/fr/tips/101-etat-civil - Belgian civil records  beginning in 1797

Instructions for the above three websites:

Register and activate your registration after checking your email.

Then click on the link above and go to the town of your choice, then make sure you click on the second tab from the left "Archives Numeriques" It will load all the images for the particular register you want to see, so be patient. Then browse through the pages of the register. 

Not all towns are available, so keep checking back. They regularly add records

 http://belgium.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index.html - an active rootsweb site.  You may sign up to be on the mailing list which is also active.  Many times your question is answered by someone in Belgium, not an American which is extremely helpful, especially with place names and locations

 http://www.eupedia.com/belgium/belgian_surnames.shtml - information on Belgian surnames

 https://sites.google.com/site/belgiumancestry/ - a listing of free Belgian websites

 www.familienaam.be – put in surname to see the number and location currently

 https://familysearch.org/ - Many Belgian records available.  More about how to find them in later blogs

Luxembourg

http://www.deltgen.com/ – this is a little known site with lots of information.  A huge family tree and many (100ish) links.  Rob Deltgen is the webmaster.

 http://www.familux.org/ - lots of information on Luxembourg – American genealogy.  Try the genealogy resources tab

 http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu/R/J999RCSUEHI6XN3YHRCJ2UBK73S4VDMLV5RCCAPN21P1RE2FUD-01923?func=search Newspaper website which are in German or French.

 https://familysearch.org/ - Many records available, including census records.  More about how to find them in later blogs

 

Do you know of any others to add to this list?