Where do I find the civil registration and population records for Brussels-City?
Somehow I can't find the records for Belgium, Brussels, Brussels or Belgium, Brabant, Brussels (until 1977).
I keep finding all the sub-entities like Sint-Gillis or Ixelles, but not the city center...
Thanks to help me,
Cecile
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The new Catalog search keeps losing cities. (Vienna can still only be found using workarounds.)
It looks like for Brussels, they've simply lost a jurisdiction level: I think "Belgium, Brussels" brings up everything relevant (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=1972260&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Belgium%2C%20Brussels%22&subjectsOpen=359961-50) -- although granted, I have no idea what all should be there, so I don't know if anything's missing.
For the civil registrations, you can try starting from the collection page (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1482191).
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Thank you! I have only my mobile phone for the rest of today, will check later.
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In the past (before the catalog started losing places), searching from the highest level (Belgium, Brussels), did not reveal everything that should be found. I recall showing someone how searching on "United States, North Carolina" only revealed records filed/categorized at the state level, but that records for various counties within the state were not shown.
All that to say - there may be records for the individual lower-level jurisdictions within Brussels that don't show up with that filter.
Good luck!
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Both links are really very useful, thanks a lot for that. So I can find all civil registrations easily now.
However I still see no population lists, any idea for that?
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@CecileSarlet The FamilySearch Wiki is a good place to check for what types of records exist and if/where they may be available. https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Belgium_Population_Records
Records created less than 120 years ago cannot be consulted.
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I've been unable to get the Catalog to cough up any population registers for the city of Brussels.
Perhaps they're not included in the material scanned by FamilySearch?
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This note on Belgian Censuses: https://frenchgen.com/the-online-belgium-census-update/
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Still strange, I thought I looked into Brussels population files earlier. Moest "disappeared" images have come back into the catalog, but Brussels seems a mystery.
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