Belgium School Records

Student stipend records (Fonds des bourses d’etudes)
Research use: Helps identify family relationships over several generations.

Record type: Register of students who received stipends from cities to attend schools and universities.

Time Period: 1500- present.

Content: Includes pedigrees showing parents and sometimes several generations with names, dates of birth, marriage and death, places of birth and residence.

Location: Provincial and city archives.

Population coverage: 5%.