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Unfortunately, we have to start this newsletter with very sad news, announcing the loss of one of our collaborators, as Christiane OTH-GALLION died January 15th, 2014 after a long illness at the age of 60 years.
She joined the genealogy project luxroots.com as subscriber in 2004 and as associate in March 2012 to work on the townships of Septfontaines and Kehlen.
We join the family in their mourning and express our deepest sympathy to her husband and her children.
Christiane, thank you for your kindness and your commitment to our project which will keep a memory of you forever.

luxroots counts among the registered visitors of its websites approximately 1,300 family researchers living in Luxembourg. More than 350 of these visitors are supporting the projects of the group with their work or through a subscription thus making it the largest genealogical group in Luxembourg.

Look at our Flashback about past events especially our last meeting January 8th. 30 persons were present to be informed of the luxroots project and their new developments.

We regularly send questionnaires to our subscribers to know more about their satisfaction with our activities and projects. Most customers endorse our projects, others are seeking information in other regions and periods not yet covered by our associates. We were surprised to receive this answer:
Your tool is very well and allowed me to complete my family tree. However, in principle, I am not willing to pay for access to data that should remain in the public domain.
We are very happy with the wording of the first sentence. But to the second sentence, we must give a comment: luxroots asks that historical records are available to the general public. For this reason, we have signed the petition against the European regulation draft on personal data # EUdataP. Access to these documents and analyzing / publishing of contents of these documents are two different pairs of shoes. Without access to documents, luxroots could never have started; with luxroots, genealogical research in Luxembourg has become much easier. Even with volunteer work, the publication of data via a complex and fast IT infrastructure produces high costs. We are very happy that much of our visitors appreciate this transcription of records in our database by supporting our projects by a subscription.

The genealogy group luxroots is at your service with an information desk:

Saturday, January 11th from 11am to 4pm at the book market in Niederanven

Sunday, March 9th, from 8am to 5pm at the 'Tauschbörse' in Ettelbruck (Deichhalle)

Sunday, March 23rd, from 10am to 6pm at the National Day of Local History in Mertzig (Turelbach)

During the month of January 2013, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
436 baptisms 1779-1807 of the parish of Medernach by Linda GEDINK
2.086 births 1895-1923 of the township of Bettembourg by Chantal WEBER-BECKER
2.853 births 1849-1894 of the former township of Rollingergrund by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
587 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Bech by Ramona and Marcel LINCK-GAMBUCCI
212 marriages 1895-1923 of the township of Boevange-Attert by Marilyn FÜRST
234 marriages 1840-1879 of the township of Mompach by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS
308 marriages 1760-1797 of the parish of Munshausen by Christiane KRIER-PETERS
1.629 deaths 1870-1923 of the township of Beaufort by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS
1.712 deaths 1796-1899 of the former township of Longlier (Neufchâteau) by Joel SCHMIT.
Which associate is currently working on what ?

We have a new associate: Linda GEDINK entering the baptisms of the parish of Medernach.

Do not hesitate to participate in this great puzzle of genealogy of Luxembourg by analyzing and capturing the details of the records of your preferred township or parish. We are looking for people entering births in the cantons of Capellen, Grevenmacher, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg and Remich as well as for the Belgian and German border regions.
In addition, some 200,000 baptisms are waiting to be deciphered to enter details of these records. If you know Latin, we need you! Contact us!

On www.igenealogy.lu , we added the file of Jim ARNOLD (86 persons). This database now holds 70 family genealogies with a total of 160,000 persons.

Help us so we can support various actions of charity organizations. Donate myluxroots points to luxroots CHARITY.
For every 100 points offered by you (1 point worth one euro cent ) luxroots offers 100 extra points up to a maximum of 50,000 points. Thank you in advance for your donation of points for a good cause.

If you are looking for answers about questions on our project, take a look at this page. More suggestions, questions, and criticism to further improve our projects can be sent to us and we will try to give answers to your questions. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

You can also use your myluxroots points for our new application to generate PDF documents with luxroots data Thanks to a program developed by Steve MULLER, luxroots offers the subscribers and associates the possibility to download, online via the myluxroots points system, PDF documents containing the data (captured from birth and/or baptism records)

of people with the same family name. For example, please open this document containing an extract (9 pages) from the PDF document on the KIRSCH family name (101 pages).
The documents will be available via our search page by typing in the white box (in the blue background row entitled 'enter at least the 3 first letters of the lastname') the family name for which you wish to have this PDF document. Confirm the search by clicking on 'Search', and on the next page click on the number (There are only links to the numbers that are lower than your myluxroots points.), and then follow the instructions on the opening page.
For each person of this document, you will find a link on its name in order to open the luxroots record for this person (if you are already logged in).
people of a certain township or parish. For example, please open this document containing an extract from the PDF document on the baptisms of the parish of Doennange (60 pages) .
The documents will be available via current inventory page for the amount of points shown in the 'myluxroots points' column.
Depending on your myluxroots points counter (indicated on each record), this amount is displayed in green color with a a link to our download page (if you are logged previously as a luxroots user).

As already mentioned above, these PDF documents will be billed through our myluxroots points system (1 point per person with a minimum of 100 points per document.) Therefore, pay attention to have enough points for buying documents by earning points while uploading further information in our database or by purchasing additional points .
In order not to disturb the performance of our server, the PDF document of family name with more than 1,500 people must be ordered by mail and will be sent to you.

We wish to inform you that we will finish our genealogy forum www.généalogie.lu in absence of a reasonable interest.

Henri and Théodore KIRPACH from Mamer , our dedicated website to these 2 brothers, further to a conference by our colleague Fons WILTGEN at the third 'Mamer Geschichtsdag' on November 11th, 2013.

Alphonse WAGNER send us a link about historical records collection (migration) (www.familysearch.org)

Did you already check our database about the Luxembourgers, soldiers of France 1792-1815, if not, continue here to see details of more than 5.000 soldiers !

On our website www.roots.lu , the website with details of records of the 17th and 18th centuries, 1,000,000 persons (children, fathers, mothers, husbands, spouses, godfathers and -mothers, ...) are indexed so they can be looked through with our search engines.

Are you interested in the local history of Luxembourg of the 16th century? You are curious to see drawings from many villages of Luxembourg? So, check and download the full property records of the Abbey St. Willibrord of Echternach made from 1597 by Father Jean Bertels (1544-1607) for free. (reported by National Archives )

Our associate Joseph LEONARD draws our attention to the Belgian Cadaster website.

Contact other luxroots users in order to work together on a common family name. More than 1,900 luxroots users have already given their consent.

myluxroots, our application suite has been developed to enable you to add your recent family members born from 1895 to today, to link them to those already entered in our database, and thus obtain a pedigree chart for the people you entered. (Please note that people born until 1923 are often entered in our database on basis of information from the National Archives and that the people born after y (y=actual year-100) are not shown.)
The subscriber can add studies, jobs, functions, addresses, other information, pictures and links to all the records. The subscriber, enriching the database luxroots, earns myluxroots points. These points can be used to build pedigree charts and/or lists of descendants for people in the database already linked by marriage.
If you need further help, don't hesitate to contact us by mail , phone (00352) 2799 4713 or skype: eicherg (Enter 'luxroots' in the information field in order to get a new contact.)

As you know it already, all our subscriptions are limited in time and in volume in order to avoid professionals (searching for heirs, holders of other websites or databases, ...) and thus allow our server to respond quickly to requests from family researchers.
If you reach this volume limit, you can now use your myluxroots points in order to decrease the volume counter. (These myluxroots points are offered with the EXTENDED subscriptions, obtained when adding information to our database or by buying further points.

Check our statistics TOP-100 as well as our updated inventory .

If you have not already done so, support the luxroots project with one of the proposed memberships in order to search within the most important genealogical databases of Luxembourg.

Our library To help our subscribers and associates in their work and genealogical research, we began to acquire genealogical documents of Luxembourg and the neighboring region. With this link , you will find a list of these documents. If you have a search to do within one of these documents, please send your request by mail!

Are you looking for a book on genealogy and/or local history or do you have such a book to sell ? Then go to
luxbooks.lu, the virtual marketplace for luxemburgensia, Genealogy, Local History,?
and make an offer to sell or buy this book. Currently, the following books are offered for sale or looked for by our users . With the help of our bookshelf with more than 900 books, you can easily manage your personal library!

Save your genealogy research to igenealogy.lu. This website has been created specifically to publish your genealogical search results (as GEDCOM file) free of charge.
Share your searches with the world and attach your GEDCOM file in ANSI format to your message to us !

p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Friday, February 28th, 2014.

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