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State Archives of Bruges possesses the archives of the French institutions of West-Flanders between 1794-1814 in 'INV 82. Inventaris van het archief van de Franse Hoofdbesturen van West-Vlaanderen, 1794-1814'. This includes lists, lotteries, certificates and mail related to the 'conscrits' under Napoleon.

The search for information in relation to a person is almost impossible. Fortunately, there was the project 'West Flemish conscrits' and was recently completed. Not less than 58,225 index cards were prepared by the late architect Roger Vergaerde, digitized and provided with an alphabetical index. This interesting collection is already available tot the public at the Provincial Center for Familiekunde Vlaanderen at Ostend.

Usually the card contains the following data available:

  • Frenchified name and first name
  • Usually
  • name of the father (and mother)
  • baptism or birth date, parish, sometimes residence if different, canton
  • Year of the batch, lot number, length
  • Rejected or postponement, substitution
  • Calls to ... (military unit)
  • brief military career (possibly transfers, desertions, convictions, injuries, dismissal, deceased.)
  • Often it contains a folder number.

With these data, you can request the dossiers at the State Archives of Bruges or in Vincennes

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An example of a card.
3210 refers to a folder under INV(entory) number 82 of the State Archives at Bruges.

An indispensable resource for those who miss data on persons born during the late 18th century. Sometimes they also will understand why that after a long search no data was found in the Civil Register about specific individuals.The database at the Provincial Center for Family History in Ostend crucial.

Also located in the State Archives in Bruges, a series of death certificates from the occupied territories in INV 313 Inventory of obituaries soldiers from the Department of Lys - unordered .

The digitized draft registers of the Province of West Flanders are now also on-line and can be consulted at : www.west-vlaanderen.be/probat (Probat is the information systen of the province). (Probat is the Archive Management System of the province).

Some information about the information can be found at: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militiekanton . "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militiekanton"

The draft registers could give additional informatien about the persons of whom one knows the age or birth location, but not the parents.

By entering in "draft register" in Probat and the required location (and if necessary the period), one obtains an overview of registers which coild give the required informatio. By clicking on one of them, one obtains a detailed description with a list of downloadable pdf-files.

How fast one can find the information is a matter of lock. There are no indexes (and they are not planned). Fortunally in the 19th century, most people stayed at the location of birth or in the neigbourhoud.

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