| On December 22, 2012 Willy Van de Poel is deceased. He was a member of our group since November 2007, doctor of science (chemistry), designer of this website, always enthusiatic and good-humored, full of ideas and a hard worker. We will miss him badly. |
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BS-Kempen is the name of a group of people whose goal is to make all the public records of the Civil Registry (births, deaths and marriages) of all the municipalities of the region known as De Kempen in the province of Antwerp, available in a digitised and indexed form on the internet. This ensures that the original documents can be kept in a secure and protective environment and, at the same time, that the information is nevertheless available without restrictions We digitise the pages of the Civil Registry that are in the public domain either by scanning or photographing the original documents (or a microfilm version of them), and save them in a digital image format. A separate index is then compiled for births, deaths and marriages. Each index can either be consulted directly, or downloaded from this site. For each record, the index indicates on which original page(s) it is to be found. Scans of records can be requested and are either sent to you by e-mail, or placed on the website for download. Neither the index files, nor the scans, may be used for commercial purposes. On Mayl 1, 2013, our indices contained entries to 323.465 records from the Civil Registry and Parish Registry. The archive of BSkempen, which can also be downloaded, consists of 280.669 images (pages) and is 404 GiB in size. The number of scanned records requested was 31.143. If you wish to contribute to this initiative, or if you are willing to help in one way or the other, please do not hesitate to send us a message. This service is free of charge. However, you could do us a small favour. Click here for details. A summary of the latest additions and changes made to the files is available here. |
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Click here for the indexes of all 323.465 records in one downloadable database. |
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You can download zipfiles with the images of the records on the page of the community
below.
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The table lists the municipalities for which data are currently available. Work in progress is also indicated. Click on a shield of arms shown below to gain access to the indices of the municipality indicated.