Tremelo Frans Van der Sande (67) from Bale collects all data of the ancestors of the inhabitants of Baal. He came to one conclusion: except for refugees, dates back almost everyone from Baal, Tremelo, Betekom and Werchter off of one couple of that around 1550 in Werchter lived. It comes to Dionijs Michiels (1535-1605) and his wife Cathlijne Bertelmans. Out of the four villages he found until now 12.656 descendants of the couple.