BSKEMPEN Civil Registry of the Campine, Antwerp Province

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.

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.

 Click here  for the indexes of all  323.465 records in one downloadable database.

You can download zipfiles with the images of the records on the page of the community below.
For communities who don't have a webpage yet, you can download the zipfiles on this global page.

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.


     EINDHOUT  (Laakdal)   Civil Registry   1797-1912 (6656 records)
  Parish registry 1720-1799 (2701 records)
     GEEL   Civil Registry  1797-1907  (74.504 records)
  Registry parish  Zammel  1754 -1776  (694 records)
     GIERLE (Lille)    Civil Registry  1877 - 1900 (340 records)
     GROBBENDONK   Civil Registry  1798 - 1900 (7748 records)
     HERENTALS   Civil Registry  1798 -1912  (34.498 records)
  Parish registry  1775-1805 (4510 records)  and 1584 -1796  (baptisms, 20.475 records)
     HERSELT   Civil Registry  1800 - 1881 (18.039 records)
  Parish registry 1694-1797 (8561 records)
     HOOGSTRATEN   Civil Registry  1797 - 1880 (10.463 records)
     HOUTVENNE   (Hulshout)   Civil Registry   1800 - 1912 (3430 records)
     HULSHOUT      Civil Registry  1813 - 1912  (6112 records)
     LOENHOUT    (Wuustwezel)   Civil Registry  1802 - 1910  (in progress, 10.933 records)
     MORKHOVEN  (Herentals)   Civil Registry  1792 -1912  (3517 records)
     NIJLEN   Civil Registry  1800 - ???? (in progress, 7522 records)
     NOORDERWIJK  (Herentals)   Civil Registry  1797 -1912  (7901 records)
  Parish Registry 1605-1797 (9835 records)
     OEVEL  (Westerlo)   Civil Registry 1792 -1911  (6628 records)
     OLEN   Civil Registry   1797 -1910  (12.452 records)
  Census  1867 -1880
     RAMSEL (Herselt)    Civil Registry  1866 - 1880 (469 records)
     SINT TRUIDEN    Civil Registry  1890 (987 records)
     SPALBEEK (Hasselt)    Civil Registry  1881 - 1890 (334 records)
     STEVOORT (Hasselt)    Civil Registry  1881 - 1890 (613 records)
     STOKKEM    (Dilsen-Stokkem)   Civil Registry  1876 - 1880  (562 records)
     STOKROOIE    (Hasselt)   Civil Registry  1846 - 1890  (1939 records)
     TESSENDERLO      Civil Registry  1800 - 1890  (17.387 records)
     TEUVEN  (Voeren)   Civil Registry  1796 - 1812  (944 records)
     TONGERLO  (Westerlo)   Civil Registry  1799 -1911  (11.791 records)
     VARENDONK  (Laakdal)   Civil Registry  1801 - 1912 (1137 records)
     VEERLE  (Laakdal)    Civil Registry  1803 - 1912 (9778 records)
     VELM (Sint Truiden)    Civil Registry  1881 - 1890 (586 records)
     VORSEN (FRESIN) (Gingelom)    Civil Registry  1871 - 1890 (318 records)
     VORST  (Laakdal)   Civil Registry  1792 -1912  (14.261 records)
  Parish registry 1598-1800 (baptisms and funerals)
     WESTERLO   Civil Registry  1798 -1911  (17.899 records)
     WESTMEERBEEK  (Hulshout)   Civil Registry  1813 - 1912  (3769 records)
  Conscription list 1851-1880
     WILDEREN    (Sint Truiden)   Civil Registry  1876 - 1880  (562 records)
     ZOERLE PARWIJS  (Westerlo)   Civil Registry  1800 - 1911  (3663 records)