Hobbies: Genealogy & History & Computers

Functional Support

• The Belgium-Roots Project

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• Surname Centers

  I've created for some surnames pages, where are listed some available resources, surname distribution, etc ... .

Technical support

As I acquired 'some' ICT experience from 1967 on, as a professionnal but also outside my job. I find it normal, now that I'm retired, to made this knowledge available to the genealogical community, and others.

• Belgium-Roots Project resources

  See the webmaster page of the project

• Rootsweb resources

  As a side effect, I'm administrating some Rootsweb surname mailing list, and some surname messages boards. 99% of them are related to my own research and used for that research, when appropriate.

  • Messages Boards

    At this moment (14/08/2003), I do administer the 16 Belgium boards and 46 surname boards. Most of them are "orphaned boards", with an mispselled surname. As Rootsweb doesn't delet boards, I've adopted some of these boards, so that I can redirect the postings to the more relevcant board.

  • Mailing lists

    Except for the two Belgium-Roots mailing lists, I also manage the surname mailings lists for the surnames of my great-grandparents of my children, and other ascendant surnames.

    The surnames are: BOURGUIGNON, CLAEYS, CLAUS, DETHAYE, DEVOS, MATTHYS, VANDENBERGHE.

• My Family resources

  I do maintain two private MyFamily sites, that can only be accessed on invitation. The User ID & password used for the Ancestry/Rootsweb Message boards can also be used for this sites.

  • Matthijs - Van den Berghe

    The site Matthijs - Van den Berghe is used for exchanging data about our family history with my family members. In this case family is those relatives who do descend from my

    • www.matthijsfamily.org

      The URL www.matthijsfamily.org of this public page can be used as a shortcut for accessing the login screen of the private site.

    • Pedigree of Luc Matthijs (4 generations)

      The large group of known descendants of the great-grandparents of Luc are listed on the following pages (names of the living descendants not disclosed):

      • Descendancy of Joannes MATTHYS (1844-1921) x Nathalie STOCKMAN (1851-1928)
        (Laarne & Wachtebeke)
      • Descendancy of Charles Louis CLAEYS (1853-1921) x Seraphina STALS (1860-1927)
        (Moerbeke & Destelbergen)
      • Descendancy of Franciscus Nicolaus VAN DEN BERGHE (1872-1955) x Maria Leona POELMAN (1859-1919)
        (Lokeren & Lochristi)
      • Descendancy of Edmundus DE THAYE (1864-1944) x Maria Emilie TROCH (1864-1918)
        (Oostakker & Lochristi)

    • Pedigree of Lydie De Witte (4 generations)

      The small group of known descendants of the great-grandparents of Lydie are listed on the following pages (names of the living descendants not disclosed):

      • Descendancy of Jacobus DE WITTE (1845-1904) x Adela DE PAUW (ca 1844-1913)
        (Oostakker)
      • Descendancy of Leopold DANSCHUTTER (ca 1865-?) x Celina LEFEBVRE (ca 1870-?)
        Looz (France)
      • Descendancy of Petrus DE COCK (1843-?) x Virginie DE WINNE (?-?)
        (Laarne)
      • Descendancy of Augustus BAELE (1841-?) x Justine BRAECKMAN (1844-?)
        (Laarne)

  • Ertbuur Research

    The site Ertbuur Research can be used for data exchange, etc .. with other researchers, related to families living in and around the Ertbuur hamlet of Laarne. The around could be in fact the region limited with the Durme, Schelde and Sassevaart.

• Yahoo! Groups resources

  In order to keep a neutral meeting point for French speaking genealogists, I've created a Yahoo! group as the successor of genealogie-en-belgique, when this group was deleted by Yahoo! due to the fact that his owner refused to follow the Yahoo! rules for administrating his group.

  • Genealogie-Belgique

    Yahoo! Groupe Généalogie-Belgique (French)

• 2Link.be resources

  I maintain the following page(s) on this Belgian portal site:

  • 2Link.be - Evere

• Digitaal Brussel resources

  I help to maintain the following sites on the servers of this ISP for the Flemish associations in the bi-lingual Region-Capital Brussels.

  • Gemeenschapscentrum Everna (Evere) (in construction)
  • Plaatselijke Openbare Bibliotheek Herman Teirlinck (Evere)