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Belgium: A Strategy to Identify your Ancestors (view source)
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Suppose you found the birth certificate of an ancestor.<br> | Suppose you found the birth certificate of an ancestor.<br> | ||
The birth certificate contains information about the parents the name, age and, if you are lucky, the town of origin. This makes it possible to find their birth certificate. | The birth certificate contains information about the parents the name, age and, if you are lucky, the town of origin. This makes it possible to find their birth certificate. | ||
The older records might not contain the town of origin. | The older records might not contain the town of origin or even the age. | ||
There are many ways to work around this problem.<br> | |||
If you are lucky, the parents married in the same village as their child was born. | |||
The marriage certificate contains information about the married, but also about their parents. Most importantly, it locates their death or, if they are still alive, it gives the residence. | |||
In the later case, they are likely do die in the following decade in that village. Either way, you can easily find their death certificate. | |||
The death certificate contains the age, town of residence and the name of the parents, which makes it possible to find the birth certificate.<br> | |||
A more secure approach is to search for the marriage certificate of the ancestors for whom you already have the birth certificate. They likely married in the birth town of the wife. The marriage certificate helps to locate the death certificate of the parents, which helps to locate their birth certificate. | |||
It is also possible to search for the death certificate directly, but then you might have to search through multiple decades.<br> | |||
You can also search for the birth certificates of the sibling. This can help estimate the marriage and death dates of the parents. | |||
== Research for the 17<big>th</big> and 18<big>th</big> century == | == Research for the 17<big>th</big> and 18<big>th</big> century == | ||