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== Land and cadastral records (Land registers, Ventes de terres)  ==
=== Land and cadastral records (Land registers, Ventes de terres)  ===


Land and cadastral records include declarations of land ownership, property, estates and purchase agreements. Records begin in 1250 in some localities and go to the present. Information in thse records may include land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or division). These records can be found in provincial, state, city archives.  
Research use: Primarily for family relationships and to extend lineage beyond other existing records.
 
Record type: Declarations of land ownership, property, estates and purchase agreements.  
 
Time Period: 1250-present.  
 
Content: Land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or division).  
 
Location: Provincial, state, city archives.  
 
Population coverage: 10%.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Belgium,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.</ref>


== References  ==
== References  ==
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Land and cadastral records (Land registers, Ventes de terres)[edit | edit source]

Research use: Primarily for family relationships and to extend lineage beyond other existing records.

Record type: Declarations of land ownership, property, estates and purchase agreements.

Time Period: 1250-present.

Content: Land holders’ and renters’ names, taxes and rent paid, dates of deeds, residence, land descriptions, fathers’ names and sometimes names of several generations of ancestors; date and mode of land acquisition (from a parent or grandparent, by dowry, or division).

Location: Provincial, state, city archives.

Population coverage: 10%.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Belgium,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1987-1999.