{"id":3094,"date":"2019-04-10T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2023-04-10T01:49:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T23:49:33","slug":"letat-civil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/nos-pistes\/pistes-genealogiques-en-belgique\/archive-en-belgique\/letat-civil\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil status"},"content":{"rendered":"

Civil records: a favourite source for genealogists<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It was established by decree of the legislative assembly, the National Convention, on 20 September 1792. Our country was under French occupation following the retreat of the Prussians after their defeat at Valmy.
\nThis agreement stipulates that the parish registers are to be closed and inventoried within a week. They are deposited in the common houses where they will be kept.<\/span>
\nRecords were no longer drawn up by the clergy (after the Concordat, the clergy continued to keep their own registers, but they had no legal value) but by the commune's civil registrar, usually the mayor (today's burgomaster) or one of his deputies. All the inhabitants (citizens) of a commune, regardless of their religion, are registered.<\/span>
\nThe 3 major acts in a man's life are: birth, marriage and death.<\/span><\/p>\n

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NB. By the law of 13 fructitor year IV ( 30 august 1798 )<\/b>\u00a0weddings are celebrated\u00a0in the county town<\/b>\u00a0and only decadis.<\/span>
\nThe celebration of marriages in the communes was re-established on\u00a07 thermidor year VIII ( 26 july 1800 )<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

* It is possible to obtain a deed via our association<\/span><\/p>\n

Sources :<\/b><\/span>
\nL\u00e9on Roy<\/b>,\u00a0Genealogy manual, Genealogy workshop of the Cercle d'histoire de Rixensart<\/i>, 2000, p 85.<\/span>
\nTony Neulat<\/b>,\u00a0marital status<\/i>Votre g\u00e9n\u00e9alogie n\u00b034, pp 40-41.<\/span>
\nPhotographic Document<\/b>\u00a0: G\u00e9niWal asbl\u00a0\u00a9<\/span>\u00a0all rights reserved<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’\u00e9tat civil une source de pr\u00e9dilection du g\u00e9n\u00e9alogiste A \u00e9t\u00e9 instaur\u00e9 par d\u00e9cret de l’assembl\u00e9e l\u00e9gislative la convention nationale du 20 septembre 1792. Notre pays est sous l’occupation Fran\u00e7aise qui […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[74,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-en-belgique","category-archives-modernes-1796-1918","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geniwal.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}