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Newsletter September 2014
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Sunday, November 9th, 2014, from 10am to 5pm in Hesperange (Luxembourg)
Généalogie dans la Grande Région - Ahnenforschung in der Großregion
International Meeting of genealogy and family researchers
Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Hesper
Invitation to the exhibitors Registration form for the exhibitors


Dear friends and visitors of our websites

Unfortunately, we have to start this newsletter with very sad news, announcing the loss of one of our collaborators, as Jos ZIMMER, died July 27th, 2014 after a short illness at the age of 65 years.
He joined the genealogy project luxroots.com as associate in November 2012 to work on the births of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette.
We join the family in their mourning and express our deepest sympathy to his wife and his children.
Jos, thank you for your kindness and your commitment to our project which will keep a memory of you forever.


The long evenings in autumn and winter are ideal to start or restart one’s genealogy, this beautiful leisure activity to search for one’s ancestors.

With easier access to authentic documents, including the posting of copies of genealogical records and displaying details of records already registered and published on websites, access to genealogy is open for the majority of people of all social classes.

Looking into one’s genealogy is a nice hobby, but often requires patience and a lot of persistence. The major problems facing the genealogist are the writings in records and the migration of people. Thus, deciphering the writing of a single act is still a great challenge; often a novice researcher abandons his goal after the first difficulties in reading the acts. If the ancestors were married in a more remote area or abroad or have been transferred for work (shepherds, police officers, customs officers, crafts, ...), it is difficult for researchers to find them and present a complete genealogy. These are the problems that our site will help you solve.

This is why many researchers have joined our project and build together - in a very active group - the great puzzle of genealogy Luxembourg: working in a team, building relationships, supporting each other in deciphering records that are difficult to read: an interesting hobby, informative and useful for the future; a captivating work with the new computer technologies. So many reasons to join us.

Luxroots now manages by far the largest genealogical database of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and is happy to assist you in finding your ancestors. Despite the abundance of information on our websites, there are still a lot of questions, as shown by the messages to which we respond regularly.

For this reason, we have already put in place, a few months ago, a page of questions and answers. There, you will already find many solutions to your genealogical problems.

In addition, and again to serve you better, we have now implemented a HELPDESK application. This application features thirty types of helps in one of the four languages offered (Luxembourgish, French, German and English) and allows you to find one of our correspondents that, hopefully, can help you. During the launch of this application, all types of assistance are free of charge. Subsequently, more than half of the categories of help remain free of charge while others will be compensated with myluxroots points. 


So, enjoy these early times to ask your questions.

During the month of August 2014, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
3.298 births 1870-1883 of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette by Jos ZIMMER (+)
3.079 births 1850-1894 of the township of Hesperingen by Georges EICHER
738 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Dippach by Josée and Richard OSTER-RASQUIN
Which associate is currently working on what ?

igenealogy.lu now holds 74 genealogies with 179,000 people.Publish yours too!
Recently one of our subscribers wrote to us that he wants to upload his research to luxroots to preserve them for posterity.
That person is right to think about that. However, many researchers forget, or do not dare to think of what may happen to their work after a computer crash or even later when the author has disappeared.
We must therefore take precautions now. Regular backups of genealogical data, pictures, etc. to external media (USB stick or hard disk) should become a habit. It would be prudent to keep this support in another area of ​​the house or even hire a safe in a bank.
Your research had required a lot of work. By publishing your research on the Internet (and this is already a good backup of your data), you can also give great pleasure to other family researchers and you find perhaps new contacts with new information for your additional research.
Therefore, it would be useful to publish your data free of charge on www.igenealogy.lu, a luxroots-website, and thus save the fruit of a lot of work for posterity, as did our subscriber. Our group will arrange for your work to remain accessible across space and time. Contact us for all question about this topic by mail or Phone(+352) 2799 4713

We require your help to find the dates and places of death of people born in Luxembourg and in the border region, and who later emigrated to other countries. For these people, it is almost impossible to get this information here. If you have such missing information, click on the link add death information (on each card) and enter the missing data. We thank you and we will add 2 points to your myluxroots points counter.

luxroots subscribers and associates use increasingly our myluxroots applications to add, in compliance with Luxembourg law, recent members of their family, born from 1895 to today. To these people, they can add studies, jobs, functions, addresses, pictures, links and other information and we honor this collaboration by myluxroots points. Currently, 363 images have been added. Take a look at the last 30 images uploaded. Join myluxroots.

Through their membership, the luxroots.club members appreciate the good work of our partners in our projects. We would like to remind members of the aims of the association as defined in the articles and in particular to promote the websites www.luxroots.com, www.roots.lu, www.igenealogy.lu, www.luxbooks.lu and other future websites and any activity directly or indirectly related to the corporate purpose of the association.
The best way to do this is to put the Internet address luxroots.club in a conspicuous place of your website, in your signature of sent messages or ask your friends to join luxroots.club. We thank you in advance.
The articles of luxroots.club asbl and luxroots.com asbl have been published in the Memorial C on August, 21th and 20th, 2014.

The General Meeting of luxroots.club asbl will be held on Thursday, October 9th, 2014 at 7pm in Howald.

You do not know luxroots and their projects,
then visit our information booth
Saturday, September 13th, from 11am to 4pm at the 'Bourses aux Livres et aux Vieux Papiers' in Niederanven
the weekend of September, 20th and 21th from 10am to 6pm
at the Book Festival at the Castle of Vianden , free admission

Genealogy has never been easier than today
a presentation on genealogy in general and the luxroots project particulary
in Bech on Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 at 3.30pm organized by Amiperas Bech

How to start his genealogy ?
A conference (in Luxembourgish) by Georges EICHER, General Secretary of luxroots.club asbl
with a presentation in French
in Howald, Thursday, September 25th, 2014 at 7pm (Primary School, Howald)

We have the pleasure to announce 2 new publications:
Emigrants from Bertrange to America by Jean ENSCH (in German)
info+
available after September 5th, 2014

Bartringer Amerika Auswanderer		'Viichter a Mäerzeger Geschichtsfrënn'
have published a new brochure
de Viichter Geschichtsfrënd Nr. 12
And here a link to the prisoners of War 1914-18 by the International Committee of the Red Cross.


The National Archives communicate:
Following recent developments in various delays during the work of compliance, the reopening of our main building to the Plateau du Saint-Esprit can not be done until September 22, 2014.



p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, September 26th, 2014.

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