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The following links and resources are provided to assist our visitors. No endorsement is intended or implied by the Peninsula Belgian American Club. If you know of any additional links that you think would be helpful - please submit to PBAC. Thank you. Please notify us if you find any inactive links listed below.

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Last Updated:  May 17, 2007

BELGIUM RESOURCES

Websites in French can be translated by going to http://www.altavista.com and entering the website address.

Addresses and Misc. for Belgium
Brabant Walloon
Belgian Recipes and Traditions 
CHAW - The Historical, Archaeological and Genealogical Circle of Wavre and the Walloon Brabant  

Emigration from Brabant Province in 1852
Federation Royale Namuroise

Land Record Map for Hainaut & Liege Provinces

Netradyle   
History and Genealogy Center - located in Tourinnes-le-Grosse, Belgium. Information provided: parish resources, publications,  genealogy forum, monthly newsletter, resource links, and church photos-history. Website is in French but can be translated by going to http://www.altavista.com and entering the Netradyle web address http://www.netradyle.be.

Newspapers in Belgium

Walloon Language Grammar
Walloon Language Page

MAILING LISTS

Belgium-Roots Project

MAPS

EarthaMaps
Online Mapping Service for the United States

Find a MAP
United States, Europe, and World (topographic)

Expedia
Search for place names in Europe, North America or the World. View location on a printable map. Driving directions also available.

Maporama

MEMBER WEBSITES

Trina Rabida     E-mail: trina@itol.com     Website: http://www.degrandfamily.com   
Descendant of Jean Joseph Degrandgagnage
(Wayside Chapels of Door County, Photos, History, Gravestones, Obits)

      (NOTE:  If you would like your website included here, please send the
      web address to kmpd@charter.net 

MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES

American Immigrant Wall of Honor
The only National Monument where any American can have a name inscribed in tribute. Search for your family name. Read about Ellis Island.

Belgium-Roots Project
Belgium-Roots was created for the purpose of assisting the descendants of Belgian emigrants/immigrants living abroad in tracing their Belgian roots and exploring their Belgian heritage. 

Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
Online Search for Land Patents

CastleGarden - Immigration      "New"
America's first immigration center
CastleGarden.org offers free access to an extraordinary database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened. Over 73 million Americans can trace their ancestors to this early immigration period.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Family Search for ancestors in records collection and Family History Library.

Civil War Belgians  1840-1865
Civil War Information, Census, Belgians in America, Emigrant Arrival, Sources, Links

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites
Genealogy Sites on the Internet - more than 88,000 links.

Currency Conversion

Genealogy Lookups (FREE)

Library of Congress
Collections and Services

National Archives and Records Administration
This area provides many of the finding aids, guides, and research tools that can prepare you for a visit to one of our facilities or for requesting records from NARA.

Social Security Death Index

SHIP INFORMATION

Ship Lists
Assistance for those seeking information on the vessels which brought their ancestors to the U.S. Also ship passenger lists, schedules, wreck data, and other information which is not readily available, has been collected, along with links to other sites of interest.

Olive Tree Genealogy (Ship List Query)
Search engine to query passenger list transcriptions available on the Internet

Immigrant Ships
Ship Passenger Lists

TRANSLATION

On-Line Translation Dictionary
Let's you translate by word in Dutch, French, German, English, etc.

Latin Translation by Word

Alta Vista
Translate sentences and web sites.

WISCONSIN RESOURCES

Algoma Record Herald

Belgian Days in Brussels, Wisconsin

Brown County Townships

Brown County GenWeb Project

Census Records by County

Courthouse Addresses


Door County Advocate

Door County Compass
Door County Historical Associations, heritage and Sesquicentennial information, in addition to many other Door County links for churches, events, etc.

Door County Genealogy Resources

Genealogy Resources On The Internet
Green Bay Press Gazette Obituaries

Green Bay, Wisconsin Directory, 1872-73

This database is a transcription of a city directory originally published in 1872. In addition to providing the residents' names, it provides their addresses and occupational information. The database includes more than 1,400 names, mostly heads of household.

Kewaunee County Cemeteries

Kewaunee County Census 1870

Kewaunee County Genealogy Resources

Kewaunee County Resources
 
Sources of Information for Historical and Genealogical Research provided by Kewaunee Co. Historical Society

Kewaunee Enterprise
Kewaunee Star
Luxemburg News

Wisconsin Genealogical and Historical Society

Peshtigo Fire in Oconto County, Wisconsin

State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Wisconsin census from 1880, 1900, and other years (including the "state" census from odd years). Also available, the listing of pre-1907 births, deaths, and marriages. Note: they will do some lookups for a small fee.  

Wisconsin Historical Society has two new online research tools to help genealogists research ancestors who served in Wisconsin units during the Civil War.

UWGB - Cofrin Library (Belgian-American Research Collection)
To date, the Belgian-American Research Collection focuses on the rural Walloon settlements, with a limited amount of Flemish materials. The collection includes oral history tapes, photographs, maps, a vertical file, books, and manuscript materials.

Jean Ducat - Passagers Belges partis vers l'Amerique en 1856 - published 1997 - book is now available for viewing online.

Wisconsin GenWeb Project
County maps and lists, Wisconsin resources, archives, Immigration and Naturalization, maps, etc.

Wisconsin GenWeb by County - FTP
Cemetery, census, land, obits, divorce, biography, etc.