Source:Wallonne, Belgium. Birth Index, 1559-1991

Alternate titles

Naissances de Wallonie en Belgique, 1559 à 1934

Source Information

A.S.B.L. Geniwal, comp. Wallonia, Belgium, Birth Index, 1559-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.

Original data

A.S.B.L. Geniwal, comp. Index de naissances, mariages et décès de Wallonie. [Electronic data on CD]. Wavre, Belgique: A.S.B.L. Geniwal, 2008.

About Wallonia, Belgium, Birth Index, 1559-1991

This database contains birth information extracted by the Belgian genealogical association, A.S.B.L. Geniwal, for the Walloon region of Belgium and covers the years 1559-1934. The Walloon region accounts for approximately one-third of the population of Belgium and represents the entire French-speaking portion of the country.

It encompasses the provinces of: Brabant, Namur, Hainaut, Liège, Luxembourg (not to be confused with the country of Luxembourg)

The fields listed in the database include:

• Name of child born
• Gender
• Birthplace (city and province)
• Birth date (according to the French Republican Calendar)
• Father’s name
• Mother’s maiden name
• Father’s occupation
• Witnesses’/godparents’ names
• Document source (parish registers (registre paroissiaux), or civil vital records (état civil)
• Page number
• Record number

You can learn more about this collection at the Geniwal website.