Belgium Land and Property: Difference between revisions

'''[[Belgium Genealogy|Belgium]]'''

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

[[Image:Belgium high level.gif|right|200px|Belgium high level.gif]] 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).  

 

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>  

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