On this site:

Updated:

-          WWI Draft Cards  :  PROJECT COMPLETED in MARCH, THANKS TO CHUCK

o        Michigan: courtesy of Chuck VandenEeden, Linda Kincade, Cindy Roberts

o   New Jersey: courtesy of Chuck VandenEeden

o   Ohio: courtesy of Chuck VandenEeden

o   New York: courtesy of Chuck VandenEeden

-          Grez-Doiceau: Parish Registers, courtesy of Kathleen Race

 

On MyFamily Site:

Added:

- Belgian recipes, compiled by Helene Moreau

- Genealogie Ohne Grenzen #75 and #76; also #61-67

 

On the Web:

 

Indexed Archives of Mechelen / Malines and Leest

Go to http://www.dewarevrienden.net/DWV/  and click on Lopende Projecten

 

These are the choices you will have after that:

- Digitalisering Burgerlijke Stand Mechelen 1796-1900

- Digitalisering Burgerlijke Stand Leest

- Bewerking notariaat Jan Harlinghen 1595-1634

- Genealogie Suetens, meer dan 600 jaar beenhouwers te Mechelen

- Geschiedenis van de Mechelse randgemeenten

- Procuratoria 1507-1796

- Registers van de Amman 1545-1715

- Databank Huizen

 

Online Archives in Flanders:

http://www.vrijwilligersrab.be/blog/index.php

 

Another new Belgian Obituary Site: in French

use an online translator to get the basic idea : http://necro.sudpresse.be/    

 

Check out Belgian Records’ Images Online on Geneanet

Buissonville, Namur, Belgium: 1600-1796 : Parish Register Tables

Hooglede, Belgium: 1777-1793 : christenings, marriages, burials

http://doc.geneanet.org/registre_categorie.php?id=3

 

Online Archives in Flanders: http://www.vrijwilligersrab.be/blog/index.php

 

Obituary Site: in French - use an online translator to get the basic idea http://www.defunt.be/index.php

 

Master Theses Online: interesting essays in Dutch, English and French on a variety of subjects

http://www.ethesis.net/index.htm

 

The Gazette van Antwerpen pictures: http://www.hbvl.be/dossiers/-e/eeuw/default.html

 

Le Ban de Meeffe : Des Origines à 1795, by Serge CHASSEUR

Essay on the History of the villages of Meeffe, Seron, Forville,and of the hamlets of Seressia, Gochenee, Vertbois, published in 1999 by the Ligue des Familles de Fernelmont asbl can be accessed at :

http://www.fernelmont.be/SiteFernelmont/Site.nsf/.HistoireW/CC7DC24DFA68C4A3C125\70D2003F07C2?Opendocument   

 

For a good political laugh: http://tvbelgiek.rtl.be/site.php?module=video_list&movie=ep080&pagenr=1

Embed

 

PODCAST: La Belgique en crise (in French)

http://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/em/2000ansdhistoire/index.php?id=60196   - REAL PLAYER

 

ZONNEBEKE - DOZA, the file of the former Augustinian abbey is kept in the file of the Grootseminarie of Brugge. It covers the period as from 1072 to the end of the 18th century and offers a treasure of information on the ancient regime in a region where good files are rare, due to wars during that time frame. 1,500 of the 2,000 files have been already studied and placed on the DOZA Internet site. http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/doza/

 

Indexes of civil and parish registers (growing databases)

Généadyle:  http://geneadyle.nuxit.net/actes/index.php?args=M  By Jean Jacques HALLAUX, with Netradyle

 

GénéaDinant: http://www.genedinant.be/actes/index.php/A    multiple participants

 

Hubert Barnich’s site on Arlon-Sampont area http://membres.lycos.fr/hbarnich/bibli.htm

 

FamilySearchlabs.org : FamilySearch Indexing: http://www.familysearchlabs.org

Time to pull up our sleeves and help get all the archives online!

 

http://arch.arch.be/content/view/457/2/lang,fr_BE/  

Take the opportunity to check out what will soon be part of the new face of FamilySearch! “Record Search” gives you access to digital images (FREE) of vital records as they are indexed with the Indexing projects now in progress.  Register to help move this project along faster! Register, Download the software and Begin indexing right away!

 

UPDATED: Michel TOUSSAINT’s website on Bouillon and area! http://users.skynet.be/mto/sommaire1tp.htm

Corbion : 1796 - 1840 - 1340 records

Frahan : 1797 - 1823 - 96 records

Poupehan : 1797 - 1823 - 186 records

For the Greater Bouillon:  ALL 1906 marriages

And 1906 Births for Bellevaux, Bouillon, Dohan, Noirefontaine, Sensenruth, and Ucimont

 

New Book:

 

PETER: The Andrew Peter Family, by Rene Bouillon & David Peter

http://www.peter-family.net/AndrewPeterBook/index.html  

in pdf format – downloadable compliments of David Peter.

 

“Flemish DNA & Ancestry” – now available! By Guido Deboeck

Conventional genealogy relies on documents that can contain errors, may have been written to mislead, or could be partially destroyed.  Some relationships are never recorded. To go beyond the constraints of documents, genetic genealogy can be deployed. Through DNA testing paternal or maternal lineages can be disclosed. 

Dr. Deboeck combines in this book conventional and genetic genealogy to reveal the history of three Flemish families over five centuries.  He describes the occupations of each of these families as well as the history of lace making, beer brewing, and immigration. 

With concrete examples he illustrates the interpretation of DNA results and the uploading of those results to public databases. This book also includes an introduction to the Flanders-Flemish DNA project, the first analysis of actual Flemish DNA records and a summary of the deep ancestry of people with Flemish roots. 

xxiv, 372 pp., illustrated, indexed, paper, ISBN 0-9725526-7-7

Published by Dokus Publishing, Arlington, Va.

To Preview visit http://www.flemishDNA.com  

 

“Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, & Blackfoot: The Van Tighem Brothers' Diaries, Alberta 1876-1917” - now available!  

By Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens; University Of Calgary Press - ISBN 1-55238-189-7 

This volume contains the diaries of the Vantighem brothers – Leonard, who served as a priest around 1900 in southern Alberta among miners and migrants, and Victor, who served for 43 years as a lay Brother among the Peigan and Blood Indians. The diaries are interspersed with letters from family and friends and letters and articles by contemporary bishops, fellow priests and Brothers. The Vantighem brothers’ diaries offer a fascinating glimpse of life during Alberta’s early settlement and development and play out against a backdrop of sometimes dramatic family and political affairs back in Belgium. The book contains valuable primary source material, most of which has been previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French.

 

Visage d'Olne – son Village, ses Hameaux

10 years in the making! – several authors take the reader through a variety of topics situating the village of Olne in its natural and historical setting – 288 pages

http://www.olne.org/

 

New YahooGroups:

- The families from JUMET: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/famillejumet

(French and English) 

- GedeporteerdWO2: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GedeporteerdWO2

(Dutch) – Site for WWII Belgian victims

 

Download your FREE copy of “Wallonie-Bruxelles” bi-monthly magazine at

http://www.wbri.be/cgi/bin2/htdoc.cgi?id=0010037_article&menu=0000195_menu_entier&header=0000260_header&footer=0000261_footer&lang=fr

 

Conference Seminars Online at www.rootstelevision.com Opened on 26 Sep 2006

Watch Conference seminars on a variety of subjects. In Rootsliving, choose from

Featured: Topic of the week

Past topics: Military Roots, Military Films, Shorts (Special reports), Rootsbooks (Psychic Roots – about Serendipity)

Videos (Ancestors Series – 2^nd season) and more

 

The “Guldenboek der Vuurkaart”:

As of 7 Nov 2006, 61,418 names of Belgian soldiers are listed for

1933-1934                  1934-1935                  1935-1936                  1936-1937

1937                           1937-1938                  1938-1939                  and 1940:

in Dutch, English and French (pdf format)

The “Carte du Feu” or “Vuurkaart” is a card given to all those who served in the Belgian military forces during the war, between  4 Aug 1914 and 11 Nov 1918, who served for at least 12 months (not necessarily consecutive) in the units listed (extracted from the 14 May 1932 Royal Decree, signed by the Minister of National Defense - DENS).  It could not be given posthumously.  The insignia “Croix du Feu” was given to the bearers of the Carte du feu, which served as affidavid.

http://www.tenboome.webruimtehosting.net/guldenboek/Guldenboekprojecttotaal/

 

Podcasts:

-         Genealogy Guys: www.genealogyguys.com

Genealogy News broadcast with personal reports on the FGS conference and others, one hour long, filled with tips and valuable information of all genealogical sorts.

Download the podcasts for free.

-         FGS Conference Podcasts available at www.lulu.com

Many of the 2006 FGS Conference (in Boston) presentations were recorded and are available for a minimal fee ($1.99) one a variety of topics.

-         Dick Eastman podcasts:

http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/podcasts/index.html

Interesting interviews with genealogical specialists provide insight in new materials available and offer new approaches to your personal research.

 

LINK:

- from Willem Bevernage :

 

-        Flanders & Flemish DNA Project:

http://www.familytreedna.com/(otbbk2voni5je555wh2exu55)/public/Flanders/index.aspx

This project creates a single place where through genetic genealogy Flemish ancestry can be studied. By bringing together DNA results from both Y-DNA (male) and mtDNA (female) genealogical lines of people whose origin is Flanders or are Flemish, we shall attempt to find the deep ancestry of Flemish people and identify the original haplotypes, haplogroups and most typical surnames.

 

-        Belgian Post Office:

http://www.post.be/site/nl/postgroup/subsidiaries/philately/languageSelection.html

Choose your language preference and discover the world of Belgian stamps.  For collectors as well as a nice way to encourage your Belgian correspondents to write you back.  Just include some Belgian stamps so they don’t have to worry about the postage.

 

PROJECTS UNDERWAY:

-         The SCHMIDT Family Glassworkers

translated from  Andre Darquennes and Frederic Gobbe’s newly published book “Les Verriers SCHMIDT au Pays de Charleroi”, published by the Association Généalogique du Hainaut Belge (coming along slowly)

-         “Towns and Villages of Belgium”

translated from  Huguette DeClercq’s new book “Villes et Villages de Belgique” – to help the researcher discover the original locality of his emigrant ancestors’ origins. (more information to come)

-         Canadian Census: 1901, 1911

-         Shiplists: Canada, US

-         WWI Draft Cards: Canada

-         WWII Draft Cards

-         Obituaries: Canada and US

-         Belgium:   Sinaii Population Registers

                                       Grez-Doiceau Parish Registers

                             Verviers Civil Regiters

Contact us if you are interested in helping with any of these projects or if you have new projects to submit.