I did not subscribe to all the lists I am posting this message to. Therefore, I thank you in advance for replying privately. ------- Good evening! I am writing to you from Belgium, Europe Since April 1994, I am doing research on the emigrants from the Waasland, an area in Flanders, Belgium, west of Antwerp, to the United States and Canada between 1830 - 1950. En route I am also helping out any other Belgian descendant in North America looking for her/his Roots here. At present I have identified some 2,500 emigrants from the Waasland, but I have information on tens of thousands of Belgian emigrants. My web site at http://www.ping.be/picavet/ contains much more information, including: + thousands of NAMES of Belgian emigrants; + hundreds of passenger SHIPS (mainly from Antwerp); + a complete list of all PLACES in Belgium with their districts, province, ZIP-code,telephone area code, and not unimportant in Belgium: the official language; + TRANSLATIONS of vital records from Dutch in English; + a complete GUIDE on how to look for your Belgian roots; + some HISTORY of Belgium, Flanders, and the Waasland; + a list of hundreds of US ARMY UNITS and thousands of surnames of AMERICAN SOLDIERS decorated by Belgium after WW2; + articles about GENEALOGY, GENEOLOGY, and ANDRAGOGY. Please do contact me if you are a Belgian descendant, or if you know of Belgian immigrants or their descendants in your area. I do need any help I can get! If you have Belgian descendants in your area, I would be extremely grateful if you could make a link from your web site to mine. Georges Picavet in the Waasland, the land of Reynard the Fox ---------------------------------------------- J.A.G. PICAVET | 32-3-774.10.11 Doorn 9 | mailto:picavet@ping.be BEL-9150 Kruibeke | ping2445@ping.be Belgium http://www.ping.be/picavet/