New update in March and April 2018!
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 1918 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 1918.
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 29/03/2018)
- Province Antwerp (last update 29/03/2018)
- Province Limburg (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province East-Flanders (district Dendermonde) (last update 11/04/2018)
- Province East-Flanders (district Gent) (last update 12/04/2018)
- Province East-Flanders (district Oudenaarde) (last update 12/04/2018)
- Province Flemish Brabant (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province West-Flanders (district Bruges, Ypres, Veurne) (last update 11/04/2018)
- Province West-Flanders (district Kortrijk) (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province Hainaut (district Charleroi, Mons) (last update 12/04/2018)
- Province Hainaut (district Tournai) (last update 12/04/2018)
- Province Liège (district Huy) (last update 11/04/2018)
- Province Liège (district Liège, Verviers) (last update 11/04/2018)
- Province Liège (district Eupen) (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province Luxemburg (district Arlon, Neufchâteau) (last update 29/03/2018)
- Province Luxemburg (district Marche-en-Famenne and canton Saint-Hubert) (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province Namur (last update 02/12/2015)
- Province Walloon Brabant (last update 02/12/2015)