Sunday, August 15, 2021

Netradyle

For earlier Belgian family members, the place to start is the Netradyle website, and the best page to jump into Netradyle is at https://www.netradyle.be/actes/. You will probably want to immediately translate the page to English. (Alternative site is: http://www.wallonia-asbl.be/actes/)

Netradyle is the work of the Perwez Genealogical Circle (club). It is social group of locals who gather to discuss and work on genealogy matters. Part of their efforts has been to index birth/baptisms, marriages, and deaths plus some miscellaneous items from communities in northern Wallonia, and they present this information in the “actes”= records, section of their website at the above website.

You can search through the “actes” in a variety of ways. The most straightforward is via the “direct search” box in the upper left of the actes page. For example, if you put in the name Lempereur, select baptisms/births, and click “Checker” = Search you will get a list of 320 birth/baptism records (birth if after 1796; baptism if before 1796). If you scroll down to #156 and click, you will get this:

Alternatively to this direct search procedure, you can use an advanced search, or you can use the long table of village names on the right side of the “actes” page, and search by type of acte and name in just the village of interest.

Once one has the information from the Netradyle records, it is fairly straightforward to find the actual document that is indexed. For example, to see the actual Marriage Registration above, one goes to FamilySearch and locates the records from Thorembais-les-Béguines, specifically the marriage records that include the year 1839. These are arranged by date, so ones simply browses to the date 10 July in the 1839 records, and wallah!

For Thorembais-les-Béguines, go to the familysearch find a collection under records, and in the search box type "Belgium". You'll see all the collections for the country. "Belgium, Brabant, Civil Registration, 1582-1914," is the collection we want since Thorembais-les-Béguines is part of the Walloon Brabant Province.

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