Sources

One numbered list for the whole account. Each chapter cites these numbers in square brackets. Grades: A read from the original; B index or transcription; C derived; D tree data only. Our working files, which hold the full readings, are named after each source so that every citation can be traced.

Register entries read from the originals (grade A)

• S1. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, marriages 1608-1682, folio 233: betrothal of Livinus Saij and Maria Kerbrock, 12 October 1655; marriage 21 November 1655. State Archives of Belgium, AGATHA 57147. Reading: evidence/image_marriages_1645_1655.md.
• S2. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, baptisms 1643-1660, folio 405: baptism of Joannes, son of Livinus Saij and Maria Kerrebrouck, born 18 June 1660. AGATHA 57124. Reading: evidence/image_1660_baptism.md.
• S3. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, burials 1682-1715, folio 109: burial of Livinus Saey, 20 January 1699, "in the seventy-second year of his age", Volpenswege. AGATHA 57161. Reading: evidence/image_step0_readings.md.
• S4. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, burials 1716-1732, folio 230: burial of Joannes Saey, son of Livinus, husband of Jacoba Kerckhaert, 5 April 1719, aged 58, Volpensweghe. AGATHA 57160. Reading: evidence/image_1719_burial.md.
• S10. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, baptisms 1619-1627 (a second book), read entry by entry from August 1623 to May 1627; no Livinus Say. AGATHA 57118. Reading: evidence/image_scan_1623_1627_baptisms.md.

Indexes of the registers (grade B)

• S5. J. Pauwels, Sleidinge: Geboorten 1612-1801, index of the Sleidinge baptisms, database of Familiekunde Vlaanderen regio Meetjesland (https://www.familiekundevlaanderen-meetjesland.be/php_bronnen_V2/). Entries used, with record numbers: sleidinge/sleidinge_say_index.tsv.
• S6. J. Pauwels, Sleidinge: Overlijdens 1608-1798, index of the Sleidinge burials, same database. Entries used: sleidinge/sleidinge_say_index.tsv.
• S7. J. Pauwels, Sleidinge: Huwelijken 1608-1796, index of the Sleidinge marriages and betrothals, same database. Entries used: sleidinge/sleidinge_say_index.tsv; the 1637 Van Kerrebrouck × Steenbeke marriage is record 247270.
• S8. J. Pauwels, Lovendegem: Overlijdens 1609-1796, index of the Lovendegem burials, same database, record 215719: Maria Saeij, died 4 May 1728, daughter of Livinus, widow of Livinus Neyt, aged 64.
• S9. Verwantschappen De Eik (Jan Grim), same database, records 44492-44493: Maria Saeij, about 1669 - 4 May 1728, married (1) Lieven Slabbaert, (2) Livinus Neyt, 4 May 1708.
• S14. Estate inventories of the Ambacht Assenede, Vierschaar Wachtebeke, register 1124, page 387v, 8 October 1676: request by Jaecques De Pape and Lieven Say, guardians of the orphans of Jan De Pape and Elisabeth Say, "na afbranden van hofstede op 13.4.1676 door Franse troepen". Abstract by M. Claeys, same database, record 484320. Our copy: sleidinge/assenede_svg_saey.tsv.

Published histories

• S11. K. Lanclus and M. Verbeeck, Kantons Evergem en Lochristi (1993), Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/themas/16219 (consulted 21 September 2026). Notes: context/01, context/02.
• S12. K. Lanclus and M. Verbeeck, Sleidinge (1993), Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/themas/14176 (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S13. Sleidinge, Wikipedia (Dutch), https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleidinge (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S15. Twelve Years' Truce, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Years%27_Truce (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S16. Peace of Münster, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_M%C3%BCnster (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S17. Spanish Netherlands, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S18. K. Lanclus, Volpenswege (1993), Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/themas/3756 (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S19. A. De Vos, "Op tocht door Sleidinge", Ons Meetjesland 8 (1975), no. 1, https://mijnplatteland.com/mela/o_m/1975_1/tocht_door_Sleidinge.php (consulted 21 September 2026).

Maps

• S20. Historical maps of Flanders from the historical-cartography service of Digitaal Vlaanderen (HISTCART, https://geo.api.vlaanderen.be/HISTCART/wms): the Frickx map (1712), the Ferraris map (1777), the Vandermaelen map (1846-1854) and the Popp cadastral map (1842-1879). Views cut 21 September 2026: records/fetch_maps.py, records/maps.json.
• S21. Siege of Ghent (1708), Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Ghent_(1708) (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S22. Great Frost of 1709, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Frost_of_1709 (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S23. Austrian Netherlands, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Netherlands (consulted 21 September 2026).

More register entries read from the originals (grade A)

• S24. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, marriages 1682-1732, folio 47: betrothal of Joannes Saij and Livina de Muijnck, 6 January 1690; marriage 4 February 1690. State Archives of Belgium, IIIF volume 514_1075_000_02328_000, image 0047. Reading: evidence/image_1690_marriage.md.

More index entries (grade B)

• S25. J. Pauwels, Sleidinge marriage and burial indexes (as S6 and S7), entries not in the Say file: marriage of Cornelius Leuris and Jacoba Kerckaert, 11 June 1722 (record 244770); burial of Jacoba Kerckaert, 12 July 1743 (record 254156); marriage of Petrus Kerckaert "uit Evergem" and Livina Boeijs, 6 May 1719 (record 244851).

Register entries read from the originals, continued (grade A)

• S26. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, baptisms 1696-1714, folio 123: baptism of Joannes, son of Joannes Zaij and Jacoba Kerkhaert, 9 December 1706, born the day before. IIIF volume 514_1075_000_02319_000, image 0124. Reading: evidence/image_1706_baptism.md.
• S27. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, marriages 1682-1763, folio 16: betrothal of Joannes Saey and Georgia Stofferus, 18 September 1734; marriage 28 September 1734. IIIF volume 514_1075_000_02329_000, image A_0017. Reading: evidence/image_1734_1767.md.
• S28. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, burials 1764-1792, folio 10: burial of Joannes Saey, son of Joannes, husband of Georgia Stofferus, 23 January 1767, aged 58. IIIF volume 514_1075_000_02333_000, image 0010. Reading: evidence/image_1734_1767.md.

Published histories, continued

• S29. Ferraris map, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferraris_map (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S30. Tametsi, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tametsi (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S31. National Army Museum, War of the Austrian Succession, https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/war-austrian (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S32. Fall of Ghent (1745), Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Ghent (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S33. Battle of Fontenoy, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fontenoy (consulted 21 September 2026).

More index entries, continued (grade B)

• S34. J. Pauwels, Sleidinge indexes (as S5 and S6), entries for the Stofferis and Van De Veire families, found by searching the mother's and the person's surname on 21 September 2026: baptisms of the children of Joannes Van De Veire and Joanna Stofferis, 1734-1747 (records 231402, 231048, 230531, 230125, 229954, 229670); burial of Joanna Stofferis, 24 November 1776 (record 250499); burial of Georgia Stopheris, 15 December 1770 (record 251150); burial of Cornelius Leuris, 13 June 1746 (record 253845).
• S35. Sleidinge, Sint-Joris parish, baptisms 1739-1758, folio 125: conditional baptism of Bernardus, son of Joannes Saey and Georgia Stoffe[r]s, 28 January 1748, already baptised by Livina Schatteman. IIIF volume 514_1075_000_02321_000, image 0125. Reading: evidence/image_step0_readings.md.

Family trees and other indexes

• S36. Published family trees (grade D, cited only to show where the Destelbergen error comes from): the Ancestry tree "saeij Family Tree" (GEDCOM export); FamilySearch, person G5MW-NXX; Geneanet trees jvanhyfte1, marcscheir2, wcammaert and pp2 (consulted September 2026). Working files: evidence/conflict_livinus.md, sleidinge/geneanet_leads_livinus.md.
• S37. Nineteenth-century index tables of the parish registers of Destelbergen (baptisms pp. 116-122, marriages pp. 67-68, burials p. 102), Oostakker and Lochristi, in photographs from the family's research folder. Our reconstruction of the Say families east of Ghent from them: destelbergen/FAMILIES.md and destelbergen/REPORT.md.
• S38. J. Pauwels and others, indexes of the baptisms of Lovendegem (from 1609), Waarschoot (from 1611) and Zomergem (from 1620), FV-Meetjesland database, searched for Livinus Say on 21 September 2026 (no result).
• S39. M. Claeys, abstracts of the estate inventories (staten van goed) of the Ambacht Assenede, FV-Meetjesland database: 72 entries for the Say, Saey and Saij families, including the inventory of Jan Say of Kluizen, 27 February 1657 (register 1037, fol. 89v). Our copy: sleidinge/assenede_svg_saey.tsv; analysis: sleidinge/KLUIZEN_SAEY.md.

Published histories, continued (the French period)

• S40. Battle of Jemappes, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jemappes (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S41. Escaut (department), Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escaut_(department), and Escaut (département), Wikipedia (French), https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escaut_(d%C3%A9partement) (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S42. French Republican calendar, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S43. W. Dezutter, De invoering van de burgerlijke stand in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden en in de Noordelijke Nederlanden, https://willydezutter.be/?p=1326 (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S44. Boerenkrijg, Wikipedia (Dutch), https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boerenkrijg (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S45. K. Lanclus, Dries van Kaprijke (2015), Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/135224/teksten (consulted 21 September 2026).

Civil acts read from the images (grade A)

The images are FamilySearch photographs of the civil registers kept by the State Archives of Belgium, from the family's research folder. Readings: evidence/gen06.md and evidence/gen07.md.

• S46. Kaprijke, deaths 1802-1822: death of Bernard Saeij, 18 April 1809 (FamilySearch image 211 of 617).
• S47. Canton of Kaprijke, marriages and divorces, year VIII, act 101: Joannes Franciscus Claeys and Bernardina Coleta Saeij, 30 Floréal year VIII (20 May 1800).
• S48. Bassevelde, marriages, act 153: Judocus Bernardus Saey and Joanna Marie Bolangiers, 1 Thermidor year X (20 July 1802).
• S49. Bassevelde, marriages, 30 November 1821: Judocus Bernardus Saey and Catherine de Keyzer.

Other compiled sources (grade B)

• S50. FamilySearch, persons GPTT-3ZH (Bernardus Saeij) and GDWV-YM4 (Maria Anna van Hijfte), with the reason statements quoting the Evergem baptisms 1746-1762 (captured September 2026). Our copies: raw/GPTT-3ZH.txt, raw/GDWV-YM4.txt.

Published histories, continued (the nineteenth century)

• S51. Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, Dorpskern Bassevelde (Verdurmen, 2021), https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/300462/teksten (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S52. Belgian Revolution, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S53. Borders of Belgium, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_Belgium (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S54. Treaty of London (1839), Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1839) (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S55. Canon van Vlaanderen, The Potato Crisis, https://www.canonvanvlaanderen.be/en/events/the-potato-crisis/ (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S56. C. Bogaert and K. Lanclus, Landsdijk (2005), Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed, https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/themas/8613 (consulted 21 September 2026).

Civil acts read from the images, continued (grade A)

• S57. Bassevelde civil registers (FamilySearch photographs of the State Archives' registers, from the family's research folder): births of Bernardus Saey, act 180, 6 Floréal year XI (26 April 1803); of Jean François Saey, 20 Nivôse year XIII (10 January 1805); and of Ange Saey, act 43, 3 October 1806; marriages of Joannes Franciscus Saeij and Theresia Carolina De Roo, act 45, 27 October 1827, and of Engelbertus Saey and Amelia de Kryger, act 7, 6 June 1832; death of Marie Therese Vervaet, act 49, September 1870. Readings: evidence/gen07.md, evidence/gen08.md.
• S58. Further civil acts (FamilySearch photographs of the Belgian and Dutch civil registers, from the family's research folder): Zelzate, birth of Marie Therese Vervaet, act 136, 15 October 1813; Bassevelde, births of Amelia Saey, act 43, 24 August 1848, and of Melanie van Waes, act 44, 3 September 1848; Bassevelde, death of Bernardus Saey, act 64, 13 November 1861 (first page only); Bassevelde, marriage of Victorinus Amandus Dumonsau [?] and Amelia Saey, act 10, May 1880; IJzendijke, marriage of Eduardus Saey, act 15, 17 August 1878. Readings: evidence/gen08.md, evidence/gen09.md.

Other compiled sources, continued (grade B)

• S59. FamilySearch, persons GWMF-JPH and GWMF-JPW (Bernardus Saeij and Marie Therese Vervaet), "Marriage Registration" event, Zelzate, 23 February 1842 (captured September 2026). Our copies: raw/GWMF-JPH.txt, raw/GWMF-JPW.txt.

Zeeland

• S60. Zeeuwse Ankers, Bittere armoede en het geloof, https://www.zeeuwseankers.nl/verhaal/bittere-armoede-en-het-geloof (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S61. Encyclopedie van Zeeland, IJzendijke, https://encyclopedievanzeeland.nl/IJzendijke (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S62. Encyclopedie van Zeeland, Oostburg, https://encyclopedievanzeeland.nl/Oostburg (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S63. Civil acts read from images in the family's research folder (grade A): IJzendijke, birth of Theophile Saeij, act 56, 20 June 1879 (Zeeuws Archief viewer); Oostburg, death of Eduard Saey, act 39, 2 July 1925 (Zeeuws Archief, inventory 25.OBG-O-1925); Bassevelde, births of Angeline Saey, act 38, 23 June 1845, and of Virginie Saey, act 55, August 1845 (FamilySearch). Readings: evidence/gen09.md.
• S64. Gezin Overzicht: Saeij, Bernardus, descendant report from the calus.nl family-tree site, printed 19 February 2024, citing Zeeuws Archief act numbers (grade B). In the family's research folder.
• S65. Gravestone photographs on online-begraafplaatsen.nl: Vlissingen, Noorder Begraafplaats (Alphonsus D. J. Saey and his wives); Sluis, Hoogstraat (C. M. M. Ohms and Augusta Octavie Saey) (grade A for the inscriptions). In the family's research folder.
• S66. Open Archieven, index of the Zeeuws Archief civil records, search for "Eduard Saeij", 21 September 2026, https://www.openarchieven.nl (grade B).
• S67. Wire of Death, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_of_Death (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S68. Operation Switchback, Wikipedia (English), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Switchback (consulted 21 September 2026).
• S69. Open Archieven, index of the Zeeuws Archief civil records (grade B): IJzendijke births 1887, act 70; Sint Kruis marriages 1914, act 2; Oostburg deaths 1929, act 4, and 1960, act 116. Retrieved 21 September 2026 through the Open Archieven API; our copy: raw/openarch_gen10.json.
• S70. Civil acts read from images (grade A): Oostburg, births 1915, act 23 (Zeeuws Archief scan NL-MdbZA_25_OBG-G-002368, downloaded 21 September 2026; our copy raw/zeeuws_archief_OBG-G-002368_large.jpg); Oostburg, marriages 1920, act 31, Cerillus de Vos and Rosalia Lohman (image in the family's research folder). Readings: evidence/image_step0_readings.md, evidence/gen10.md.
• S71. FamilySearch, persons LBQN-31Y (Pieter Johannes Saeij) and LBQN-ZKB (Mathielde Sophia Lohman), with the indexes of the 1960 death act and of her memorial card (captured September 2026). Our copies: raw/LBQN-31Y.txt, raw/LBQN-ZKB.txt.
• S72. FamilySearch, persons GPK8-MCD (Achille Eduard Saeij) and GPK8-SFL (Irma Sophia de Paepe), with the indexes of their memorial cards (Genealogisch Centrum Zeeland, Bidprentjes 1850-2015) and the reason statement quoting the 1946 marriage (captured September 2026). Our copies: raw/GPK8-MCD.txt, raw/GPK8-SFL.txt. Grade B.
• S73. Gravestone of Achille E. Saeij and Irma S. de Paepe, cemetery on the Mauritsweg, IJzendijke: online-begraafplaatsen.nl, grave 411870 (photograph in the family's research folder). Grade A for the inscription.
• S74. Dagblad de Stem, 8 May 1959, 9 December 1960 and 29 May 1968, page 4 each: family notices for Pieter Johannes Saeij and Mathielde Lohman. ZB Krantenbank Zeeland, https://zoeken.collectiezeeland.nl (consulted 22 September 2026). Page crops in raw/destem_*.jpg; in the 1960 notice the names of living grandchildren are masked.
• S75. Graftombe.nl name index (IJzendijke, Sluis and Oostburg cemeteries), and Open Archieven indexes of the memorial-card collections of the Oudheidkundige Kring De Vier Ambachten and the Heemkundige Kring De Goede Stede, Hamont (consulted 22 September 2026). Grade B.
• S76. Civil acts read from Zeeuws Archief scans (grade A), downloaded 22 September 2026: IJzendijke, births 1887, act 70 (Pieter Johannes Saey); Sint Kruis, marriages 1914, act 2 (Pieter Johannes Saeij and Mathielde Sophia Lohman); Oostburg, deaths 1960, act 116 (Pieter Johannes Saeij, reported by Achille Eduard Saeij). Reading: evidence/image_1887_1914_1960.md; copies in raw/.

Estate inventories and local history (added 22 September 2026)

• S77. L. Neyt, De staten van goed van het Graafschap Evergem, vol. VI, 1612-1693 (Tielt, 1995), no. 955: estate inventory of Maeyken van Kerrebrouck, 13 July 1689 (grade B). Online: https://fv-tielt.familiekunde-vlaanderen.be/online/graafschap_evergem_6_1612-1693.pdf. Original: State Archives, Ghent, fonds Graafschap Evergem (inventory 80), bundle 281 (1687-1689).
• S78. A. De Vos, "De bevolkingsevolutie van Evergem, Lovendegem, Sleidinge, Waarschoot en Zomergem gedurende de XVIIe en XVIIIe eeuwen", Appeltjes van het Meetjesland 8 (1957), pp. 5-76 (the 1745 Liber Status: the wards Volpenswege and Hooiwege formed Sleidinge-Sint-Baafs); and "Uit het vroegere volksleven", ibid. (court cases of Volpenswege residents before the bailiff of the Graafschap Evergem). Copy in the family's research folder.
• S79. L. Neyt, De staten van goed van het Graafschap Evergem, vols. II (1760-1779), IV (1720-1739) and V (1693-1719), Familiekunde Vlaanderen regio Tielt: estate inventories of Lieven Saeij fs Jan (1699, V no. 520), Lievijne de Muijnck (1706, V no. 142), Jan Saij fs Lieven (1720, IV no. 1) and Jan Saij fs Jan (1767, II no. 387) (grade B). Online: https://fv-tielt.familiekunde-vlaanderen.be/downloads.html. Originals: State Archives, Ghent, fonds Graafschap Evergem. Working file: evidence/svg_evergem_saeij_chain.md.
• S80. L. Neyt, De staten van goed van het Graafschap Evergem, vol. VII, 1574-1697 (Tielt, 1999), no. 345 (estate of the children of Cornelis Vereecken, 1618; "Maeyken Vereeken halfzuster ... Lijevine Steenbeke eerste huisvrouw") and no. 325 (Jooris Vereecken fs Cornelis, guardian, 1612) (grade B). Online: https://fv-tielt.familiekunde-vlaanderen.be/online/graafschap_evergem_7_1574-1697.pdf.
• S81. L. Neyt, De staten van goed van het Graafschap Evergem, vol. VI, 1612-1693: no. 22 (children of Joos van der Eecken and Cristintken de Roo, 1620), no. 168 (children of Geeraert Willems and Elisabeth van der Eecken fa Joos, 1639) and no. 381 (Lyefken Dellaert, 1661; farmstead on the Volpenswege undivided with Cornelis van der Eecken fs Joos) (grade B). Online: https://fv-tielt.familiekunde-vlaanderen.be/online/graafschap_evergem_6_1612-1693.pdf.
• S82. FV-Meetjesland database, early estate inventories by M. Claeys and others: Assenede 1521-1624, Boekhoute 1540-1670, Waterdijk 1557-1789, Lembeke, Kaprijke, Eeklo, Vierschaar Wachtebeke 1650-1724 (grade B). Online: https://www.familiekundevlaanderen-meetjesland.be/php_bronnen_V2/. Say entries: sleidinge/early_svg_say.tsv.
• S83. Parish register of Kluizen (Evergem), baptisms 1642-1666, State Archives Ghent, AGATHA record 54895 (IIIF volume 514_1075_000_01837_000), read image by image for 1642-1660 (grade A). Reading log: kluizen_1642/KLUIZEN_LOG.md.
• S84. L. Neyt and others, De staten van goed van de Keure van Desteldonk 1670-1770 and Vinderhoute 1584-1733, Familiekunde Vlaanderen regio Tielt (grade B). Online: https://fv-tielt.familiekunde-vlaanderen.be/downloads.html. Copies in raw/fvtielt/.
• S85. Parish registers read for the birth window of Livinus Saij, January 1627 to early 1628 (grade A, mostly negative results): Zelzate (AGATHA 59078), Desteldonk (53971), Wondelgem (57784), Assenede (53178, 53181), Lembeke (55040), Kaprijke (54810), Mariakerke (55508) and Drongen (54071). Log: parishes_1627/READING_LOG.md; which registers survive: parishes_1627/COVERAGE.md.
• S86. R. Debbaut, Getuigen uit enkwesten 17de eeuw, FV-Meetjesland database: witness statements naming Jan Saije (Zelzate, 9 April 1629, 42 years), Lieven Saij fs Jan (Sint-Albertpolder, 20 February 1638, 33 years) and Pieter Saeije (Waterdijk, 4 October 1635, 24 years) (grade B).
• S87. AGATHA, Analyses of records (https://agatha.arch.be/en/search/analyses/), searched for thirteen spellings of the surname between 1400 and 1650 (564 records; grade B). Ghent marriages and burials 1605-1653 as cited; the West Flemish Seys families as context. Working files: agatha_analyses/FINDINGS.md, agatha_analyses/analyses_1400_1650.tsv, agatha_analyses/gent_say_1400_1660.tsv.
• S88. Evergem, Sint-Christoffel, marriages 1751-1782, page 246 (State Archives of Belgium, AGATHA record 54374; IIIF volume 514_1075_000_01669_000, image 0_0246), read from the image on 22 September 2026 (grade A): the betrothal of Bernardus Say and Joanna Maria van Hijfte on 26 December 1768 and their marriage on 7 January 1769. Reading notes: evidence/image_1769_marriage.md.
• S89. Evergem, Sint-Christoffel, baptisms 1746-1762, page 57 (State Archives of Belgium, AGATHA record 54344; IIIF volume 514_1075_000_01664_000, image 0_0057), read from the image on 22 September 2026 (grade A): the baptism of Marianna van Hijfte, daughter of Livinus van Hijfte and Maria Denaes, on 6 September 1750.
• S90. L. Neyt, Staten van goed Graafschap Evergem, deel III (1740-1759) (Familiekunde Vlaanderen - Tielt), no. 460, 7 February 1759 (grade B): the estate of Lieven van Hyfte fs Guilliaeme, who died at Evergem Meirbeke on 25 November 1758, naming his widow Marie den Haese fa Pieter by Livijne Janssens, and their five children with their ages. Reading notes: evidence/svg_1758_livinus_vanhijfte.md.
• S91. Wikipedia (English), Braakman, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braakman (consulted 22 September 2026): the inlet grew from storm surges of the 14th and 15th centuries, drowned at least fifteen villages between 1200 and 1601, served Boekhoute, Philippine, Axel and Sas van Gent as a waterway, and was closed in 1952.
• S92. Braakman voorgoed afgesloten, Zalig-Zeeland, https://www.zalig-zeeland.com/zeeuwse-almanac/braakman-voorgoed-afgesloten (consulted 22 September 2026): the breach of 1375 and the Dullaert, the greatest extent about 1570, the dam closed 30 June 1952 and finished 16 July, the sea defence shortened from 28 km to 2.7 km, and the Braakmanpolder of 1,525 hectares.
• S93. De Sint-Janskapel in de Sint-Albertpolder, in Ons Meetjesland 1980/1, https://mijnplatteland.com/mela/o_m/1980_1/St_Janskapel_in_St_Albertpolder.php (consulted 22 September 2026): the drownings of 1440, the charter of 9 November 1610, the Sint-Jansschorre, and the later division of the polder by the border.
• S94. Wikipedia (Dutch), Inundatie (1583), https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inundatie_(1583) (consulted 22 September 2026): the States army's cutting of the dykes in 1583, 1584 and 1585 and after the taking of Axel on 17 July 1586, and its consequences.
• S95. Rijksarchief in België, Gemeente Assenede overhandigt charter Sint-Albertpolder (1612) aan Rijksarchief te Gent, 7 February 2017, https://www.arch.be/ (consulted 22 September 2026): the diking finished in 1612, about 980 hectares, and the parcel-division charter of 13 July 1612.
• S96. Operation Switchback or the battle of the Breskens Pocket, 6 October-3 November 1944, https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/operation_switchback_breskens.html (consulted 22 September 2026).
• S97. Wikipedia (Dutch), Watersnood van 1953, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watersnood_van_1953, and Stormvloed van 1906, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormvloed_van_1906 (consulted 22 September 2026).
• S98. Gerard Coeck, Kaerte van de Vier Ambachten, in Joan Blaeu, Geographia Blaviana (Amsterdam, 1659). Scan by the Fondo Antiguo de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
• S99. Lochristi, burials, State Archives of Belgium (Rijksarchief Beveren), filmed by FamilySearch, image group 004455704, image 117 of 155, read from the image on 22 September 2026 (grade A): the burial of Joanna Say, daughter of Joannes, aged 11, on 4 May.
• S100. Lochristi, burials, image group 004455737, image 79 of 96, folio 1390 (grade A): the burial of Balduinus Say, husband of Joanna Glorieux, on 16 June 1718, aged 72.
• S101. Lochristi, burials, image group 004455721, image 126 of 166, folio 1157 (grade A): the burial of Catharina Say, wife of Laurens der Weduwen, on 30 March, aged 45; and, on the same page, of Elizabetha Coots, wife of Joannes Say Aerds, on 25 May.
• S102. Maldegem, burials, image group 004456141, image 205 of 226, folio 75 (grade A): the burial of Anna Seij, wife of Bartholomeus, on 29 March 1710, aged about 52.
• S103. A. De Vos (with A. Ryserhove), Oud Sleidinge (2), in Ons Meetjesland 11 (1978), no. 3, https://mijnplatteland.com/mela/o_m/1978_3/oud_Sleidinge.php (consulted 22 September 2026): the division of 1248 and the two benches of aldermen, the old street names, the cost-sharing agreement of 23 December 1656, the relics of Saint Godelieve of 1659, the font of 1663 by Jacques Cot, and De Castillon's count of communicants about 1722.
• S104. Nicolas De Vijlder, The Rural Land Market in Early Modern Inland Flanders and Brabant: A Long Run Perspective, Rural History 29 (2018), no. 2, pp. 115-143, doi:10.1017/S0956793318000109. One of its four case studies is the county of Evergem itself, that is the parishes of Sleidinge and Evergem: the dissolution of Saint Bavo's abbey in 1540, the acreages of Sleidinge-Sint-Baafs and Sleidinge-Keure, the markgeld of 6.25 per cent, the population densities, the proportion of cottars, and the average size of a land transfer.
• S105. Inventaris Onroerend Erfgoed and Wikipedia (Dutch) on the two manors at Wippelgem in Evergem: Goed ten Hulle, later the castle of Wippelgem or de Crombrugghe, first named in 1375 and held by the Ghent patrician Sander Cante, then by the Damman, Van Hembyze, Wauters (1625) and Nieuwland (1719) families, owned by the municipality since 2008; and Goed ten Broeke, held by the Ghent patrician family Borluut from the thirteenth century, turned into a huys van plaisance in 1531 with a dovecote of 220 nesting boxes, rebuilt in 1551 and sold to Willem van Putthem in 1552, its seigniory in the eighteenth century in the hands of the baron of Lovendegem (consulted 22 September 2026).