The old registers of Sint-Pieters-Rode are a case in point. Never microfilmed, no clappers made of them and finally disappeared in the 1960s. Lost forever . Anyone who had ancestors in Sint-Pieters-Rode could forget about it.

But after almost five years of intensive detective work, we have recovered most of the data from the old parish records.

Our reconstruction is based on extracta, indexes, transcribed registers, lists, photographs of the originals and, in part, on recovered original registers. A graphic overview:

In Sint-Pieters-Rode, the parish registers begin in 1574 !!! That is the oldest register in the Hageland. Baptisms from 1639 to 1671 are missing, as well as marriages and deaths from 1720 to 1777. No records of this period have yet been found. The deeds of the 19th century are complete.

All deeds have been neatly dissected, translated and typed into a database. In the printout of this database (the books), the deeds are arranged alphabetically. From Saint Pierre-Rode, the following books are available:

Number of deeds and edited period:
	Births	Marriages	Deaths	Prijs Euro
Sint-Pieters-Rode ancien regime	4086	1043	960	57
	1574 – 1800	1596 – 1800	1632 – 1800
Sint-Pieters-Rode 19e eeuw	2726	653	1663	32
	1801 – 1900	1801 – 1900	1801 – 1900
Sint-Pieters-Rode familieboek	Family book, parts 1 & 2 1. A parochial census in 1851 2. Popp's land registry map in 1555			45

A copy of the source documents of the reconstructed registers of Sint-Pieters-Rode and of the oldest register of the Hageland can be obtained.