Belgium Research Tips and Strategies: Difference between revisions

* Do not rush back in time. It takes time before you get used to the handwriting of older texts. If you go back to 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 calender.

* You can introduce dates from the calender of the French republic into the family tree, a translation to the Gregorian calender will be proposed as standardized date.

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

* Add sources. This will take some time at first, but makes it easy to check later.