A stamboek is a military service register.
Outside genealogy, the word stamboek is also used for a studbook, a register of the pedigree of purebred animals. This usage has led several genealogy websites, including Ancestry, to mistranslate the stamboek military records as “studbooks.”
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Stamboek with entry for Adriaan Marijnissen in the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 1855-1860.
Call no. 852, Military Service records of Petty Officers and Enlisted Men, Record group 2.13.09, Nationaal Archief, The Hague; finding aid and images, Nationaal Archief
(https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/2.13.09/invnr/852/ : accessed 22 December 2023).