Civil status registers

New update in February 2019!

Civil status registers are digitised from the original documents or from copies on microfilm. The digitised images are provided in bundles. The inventory lists the different municipalities, file types and inclusive dates of the files. In some cases, especially regarding smaller municipalities, it is too time-consuming to describe the files individually by type; therefore you find them under the general title “files”. Birth, marriage and death certificates are sorted by year. Ten-year tables are bundled by district and usually sorted alphabetically by municipality. Their descriptions can be found under “0 Arrondissement”.

The collection of digital images is not complete yet! Therefore, you still have to use the microfilms for your research (except province Walloon-Brabant). In the province/district list below you will find the number of registers already accessible and the last update. Registers digitised from original documents are given priority as they are not yet available in the reading rooms. Files dating until 1919 can be accessed; for example, if the time period 1901-1920 is indicated in the description, this means that files and tables form the period ranging from 1901 until 1920 are listed in the register, but that you can only access information dating from the period prior to 1919.

In order to consult documents already available online, you need to create a user account. Click on “register” and enter your name, a user name, your e-mail address and a password. You will then receive a confirmation e-mail, in which you must click on the confirmation link to activate your user account.

Example of a register.

Overview of available registers:

- 19 municipalities of Brussels (last update 28/02/2019)

Civil status registers

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Civil status registers