Belgium Research Tips and 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

 * Belgium: A Strategy to Identify your Ancestors
 * Record Finder
 * Finding Towns of Origin

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.
 * 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.
 * Not all documents are in the same language. The first names are often translated into the language of the text.