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Foreigners Police. Alphabetical file cards of the individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (files nos. 1-999.999)

dc.contributorWillems, Bart
dc.contributorStrubbe, Filip
dc.contributor.authorHeynssens, Sarah
dc.coverage.spatialBelgiumen_US
dc.coverage.temporal19th centuryen_US
dc.coverage.temporal20th centuryen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1835-1912en_US
dc.date2020-10-07
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-22T17:57:52Z
dc.date.available2025-11-22T17:57:52Z
dc.identifier.citationHeynssens, S. (2020). Foreigners Police. Alphabetical file cards of the individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (files nos. 1–999,999) [Data set]. State Archives of Belgium. https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/BZ6R5Ben_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/14431
dc.descriptionThe State Archives in Brussels (Belgium) hold more than 154,000 original nominal file cards that provide an entry to the collection of individual foreigners' files between 1830 to 1890. The files were transferred to the State Archives in 1948 and cover about 286 meters. They are arranged chronologically according to the opening date. The alphabetically ordered nominal file cards, that contain basic individual details on each foreigner such as name, geographical origin, occupation and file number, constitute the main source to retrieve a person's file.en_US
dc.descriptionThe archives of the Foreigners Police form a unique and essential source for both genealogical and historical research. In October 2015, the IMMIBEL project 'Outcast or Embraced? Clusters of Foreign Immigrants in Belgium c. 1840-1890' started under the guidance of Dr Bart Willems and Filip Strubbe. The project was funded by the Federal Science Policy Office within the framework of the research program BRAIN-be. The aim of the project was to provide a digitally accessible index to the file cards, so that the Foreigners' files are easier to find and consult. For two years project employee Sarah Heynssens was responsible for coordinating the entry of the data from the file cards into a database.en_US
dc.descriptionNumber of persons: 151.863en_US
dc.descriptionThis dataset is published and preserved in SODHA - Belgian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Digital Humanities. ORFEO provides a bibliographic reference only; data files are accessible exclusively via the DOI link below.
dc.languagefraen_US
dc.languagenld
dc.publisherState Archives of Belgiumen_US
dc.publisherSODHA – Belgian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Digital Humanities
dc.relation.ispartofDatasets
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDatasets
dc.titleForeigners Police. Alphabetical file cards of the individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (files nos. 1-999.999)en_US
dc.typeDataseten_US
dc.subject.frascatiHumanitiesen_US
dc.subject.frascatiHistory and Archaeologyen_US
dc.audienceScientificen_US
dc.audienceGeneral Publicen_US
dc.subject.freeimmigrationen_US
dc.subject.freeforeigners policeen_US
dc.subject.freemigrationen_US
dc.relation.projectIMMIBEL - Outcast or Embraced? Clusters of Foreign Immigrants in Belgium c. 1840-1890en_US
Orfeo.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.34934/DVN/BZ6R5B
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.sodha.be/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.34934/DVN/BZ6R5B
dc.relation.belspo-projectIMMIBEL - Outcast or Embraced? Clusters of Foreign Immigrants in Belgium c. 1840-1890en_US
dc.rights.licenseCC-BY
dcterms.accessRightsOpen access
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dcterms.typePublished version


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