You can also use the following research tools : cumulative alphabetical tables, card indexes from old sources such as parish, population and marital registers. These tools can also help you in your research. They are all available in the reading room. Those that exist in electronic version are accessible via the online catalogue.
Compilation of the parish registers and the epitaphs (before 1822)
Alphabetical index of baptisms and births :
- Saint Michael and Saint Gudula Collegiate Church, Church Sainte-Catherine, Church Saint-Géry (before 1600) (see table nr 129, exists in pdf)
- All the parishes of Brussels (1600-1699) (see table nr 122, exists in pdf)
- Baptisms and births in Brussels (1700-1822) (see table nr 111, exists in pdf)
- Neder-Over-Heembeek (1648-1822) (see tabel nr 99, exists in pdf) and Laeken (1593-1792) (see table nr 14, exists in pdf)
- Protestant churches in Brussels (1761-1797) (see table nr 98)
Alphabetical wedding indexes :
- All the parishes of Brussels (1700-1796) (see table nr 118, exists in pdf)
- Before 1700: Churches Saint-Nicolas (1618-1700) ; Notre-Dame du Finistère (1646-1700), Notre-Dame de Montserrat (1689-1700), Saint-Jacques-sur-Coudenberg (1618-1700), Saint-Géry (1603-1700) (see table nr 114/1, exists in pdf), Church Sainte-Catherine (1571-1700) (see table nr 114/2, exists in pdf) and Saint Michael and Saint Gudula Collegiate Church (1482-1700) (see table nr 114/3, exists in pdf), Notre-Dame de la Chapelle (1562-1700) (see table nr 114/4, exists in pdf)
- Haren (1569-1796) (see table nr 117, exists in pdf), Neder-Over-Heembeek (1657-1822) (see table nr 99, exists in pdf) and Laeken (1594-1792) (see table nr 14, exists in pdf)
- Protestant churches in Brussels (1761-1797) (see table nr 98)
Alphabetical divorce indexes :
- Divorces in the City of Brussels (1792-year 11) (see table nr 118, exists in pdf)
Alphabetical death indexes :
- All the parishes of Brussels (1600-1796) (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
- Neder-Over-Heembeek (1657-1822) (see table nr 123, exists in pdf) and Laeken (1732-1798) (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
- Béguinage (Beguine convent ; 1597-1796), Carmes Déchaussées (barefoot Carmelites ; 1700-1774) and Ursulines convent (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
- Hospitals Saint-Pierre (1794-1796) and Saint-Jean of Brussels (1695-1796) (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
- Obituaries till 1796 (see file nr 65)
- Protestant churches in Brussels (1761-1797) (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
Alphabetical epitaph indexes :
- Church Saint-Géry (see table nr 88, exists in pdf), Vieux Bruxelles (old Brussels ; 16th – end 18th century) (see table nr 91), Saint Michael and Sint Gudula Collegiate Church (see table nr 123, exists in pdf)
Compilation of censuses
Alphabetical indexes :
- Counting of households ca. 1767 (see table nr 80, exists in pdf)
- Census of 1795 (see table nr 124, exists in pdf)
- Censuses of 1802 (see table nr 128), of 1812 (see table nr 21), of 1829 (see table nr 79), of 1835 (see table nr 22, exists in pdf)
Street indexes :
- Censuses of 1795 (see table nr 110/1, exists in pdf), of 1816 (see table nr 110/4, exists in pdf), of 1835 (see table nr 110/2, exists in pdf), of 1846 till 1900 (see table nr 61, exists in pdf), of 1910 till 1947 (see table nr 62, exists in pdf)
- List of streets that changed names from 1798 (see table nr 110/3)
Cross-reference tables of house numbers :
- Dutch period and Independence (1817-1830) (sections 3 to 6) (see table nr 92), in 1890 (see table nr 81)
Compilation of Civil registers
Alphabetical indexes about French people in Brussels :
- Weddings (1795-1870) (see tables nr 82-84), weddings and divorces (1795-1900) (see table nr 85, exists in pdf), deaths (1821-1840) (see tables nr 86-87), Parisians born before 1870 (see table nr 96, exists in pdf)
Compilation of historical archives
Bourgeois of Brussels :
- File of archives Koller (file nr 75) with biographical and genealogical data about the Bourgeois of Brussels, of Halle and of Asse, and about General Brabant Notariat
- File of the Bourgeoisie (file nr 64) referring back to the quotation of the Historical Archives (Archives of the City of Brussels), of Aldermanic Acts (State Archives of Belgium), and to the archives Houwaert (Royal Library of Belgium)
- Cacamp file (file nr 52) or compilation of documents from the Accounting Chamber (State Archives of Belgium) about the bourgeoisie
Directory of the Bourgeois of Brussels (1695-1795) (see table nr 95)
Compilation of historical sources :
- Godding file (file nr 1 and inventory nr 45/34, exists in pdf) or topographic directory of acts about the land ownership in Brussels during the Middle Ages
- File of the “Chambre pupillaire” (file nr 69), a public institution that took care of the wards of the municipality
- List of Brussels notables (17th and 18th centuries) (deans of trades, magistrates of Lignages (nobel houses) and Nations, lawyers at the Brabant Council) (sees table nr 126, exists in pdf)
- List of Brussels medalists from Saint Helena (1857-1858) (see tabel nr 125, exists in pdf)
Compilation of the press
File (nr 54) of Belgian press articles about Brussels (1920-1960)
