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Dear friends and visitors of our websites

The year 2014 is coming to an end which gives us a good opportunity to take a look at this year. As always in life, there have been ups and downs.
First, there was the loss of two of our partners: Christiane OTH-GALLION and Jos ZIMMER . We thank them for their commitment to our project in which they will remain forever in our memory.

During the year under review, we were fortunate to have participated in numerous exhibitions in Luxembourg, Belgium and France to present our projects to interested people. Our exhibition 'Genealogy in the Greater Region' in Hesperange dated November 9th was a great success and the next edition will take place the weekend of September 19th to 20th, 2015.

Last June, the luxroots group transferred all its activities into two non-profit organizations. luxroots.com association manages all activities around the luxroots projects, and luxroots.club, the Genealogy and Local History Association of Luxembourg, became the club for luxroots.com subscribers, igenealogy.lu contributors, and luxroots associates. Our club currently has over 700 members and is thus the largest genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg./b>

2014 was also characterized by the 10th anniversary of our project, and we passed the gap of one million analyzed records and the details have been entered into our database. For the period of January 1st to December 16th, 2014, our associates have analyzed and entered the details of 204,000 records i.e a daily average of 582 records.

luxroots increasingly becomes the Genealogy Center for family researchers of Luxembourg and the descendants of emigrated ancestors through our websites and our myluxroots applications. These applications allow you to add your recent family members, enrich any record in our database by adding photos, studies, professions, functions, links, text .. check the 30 latest downloaded images through this link.
Manage and consult your remote genealogy wherever you are and whenever you want!

Today, more than 600 users support the project luxroots.com by one of our subscriptions!
If you are not yet among these people, join them now!
We offer them our PDF lists with family names with a special discount of 30% which will be added to the 10% discount given as a member of our luxroots.club association until end of this year.
The documents for a special family name include in chronological order details of baptisms / births of persons with this name and registered in the luxroots database.
Check the list of available names as well as specimen list (the STEINFORT family name)

luxroots makes available to its associates the pictures of the records of a certain township/parish free of charge which they plan to analyze and enter the details in the luxroots-database.
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!

During the month of Dezember 2014, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
416 births 1797-1823 of the former township of Alzingen by Georges EICHER
2,343 births 1800-1870 of the former township of Crombach (St.Vith) by Susy VOOSEN
1,964 births 1830-1839 of the former township of Eich by Marilyn FÜRST
7,892 births 1797-1889 of the township of Grevenmacher by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS
6,678 births 1895-1913 of the former township of Hollerich by Armand SERRES-HEINEN
968 births 1880-1894 of the township of Kehlen by Roger WAGNER
2,804 births 1850-1894 of the township of Remich by Roland WEIER
2,118 baptims 1675-1798 of the parish of Brandenbourg by Christiane KRIER-PETERS
3,144 baptisms 1779-1797 of the parish of Echternach by Ramona LINCK-GAMBUCCI
186 marriages 1901-1923 of the township of Kopstal by Marilyn FÜRST
Which associate is currently working on what ?

On igenealogy.lu, we updated the file of Armand BAULER with 6.567 people. This database now holds 76 genealogies with 191,500 people.
The graph includes 888,134 births entered in the luxroots database by region. The Lu-Diekirch region includes 312,133 births in the cantons of Clervaux, Diekirch, Redange, Vianden and Wiltz; Esch-sur-Alzette with Capellen; Grevenmacher with Echternach and Remich, Luxembourg with Mersch; Be-Luxembourg with the belgian townships of the province of Luxembourg (Bastogne, Fauvillers, Houffalize, Gouvy, Neufchâteau, ..; De-Rheinland-Pfalz with the townships of Arzfeld and Neuerburg.
p.s. 99.6% of the 888,134 people entered on luxroots have complete data, which means that luxroots shows the full name, date and place of birth, parents and godfathers/godmothers or witnesses

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luxroots information booth and reports on genealogy and the luxroots projects

Bourses aux Livres et aux Vieux Papiers
Centre de Loisirs Am Sand Niederanven
Saturday, January 10th, 2015 vom 11am to 4pm

Day of Genealogy and local History in the Dreiländereck (Belgium-Germany-Luxembourg)
at the ClubHaus Op der Heed in Hupperdange (Clervaux) on January 17th, 2015 from 10am to 4 pm
The owner of an annual subscription is entitled to a voucher with a value of 500 myluxroots points (5 euros) for purchasing one of our products.

Genealogy workshops
You want more information about genealogy in general or on the luxroots projects in particular,
then participate in our workshops:
Tuesdays, January 20th and February 24th, 2015 from 2 to 5pm,
at a room in the Primary School in Howald (in front of the church).
The topics of the workshops: how to search on our websites; how to add information to luxroots;
how to scan a photo, funeral notice, how to upload the scan to the luxroots website;
how does a luxroots.com associate work; computer tricks; FAQ; etc.
Take your laptop and/or participate on the large screen.

Wilbur HANSON KALB, one of our subscriber, has made an English translation of the article on the luxroots project published by Luxemburger Wort .

If you are interested in courses for learning old handwritings given by the National archives, then send us a message.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2014
It has nothing to do with genealogy, but it is relaxing to follow Radio Swiss Classic .

Notre associé Joseph LEONARD nous rend attentif à la parution du livre de son ami Georges BENOÎT:

La Renaissance en terre de Salm
Sommaire sous ce lien

Un cadeau original pour les fêtes de fin d’année.
Disponible dès samedi, 6 décembre 2014, Galerie du Vieux-Marché au salon de coiffure.
380 pages A4, couverture réalisée par Simon Bomboir
Impression : Imprimerie Winandy à Trois-Ponts
euros 48.- + frais d'envoi. Commande via notre associé Joseph LEONARD

Georges Benoit, salmien d’origine, est l’auteur de dizaines d’articles publiés depuis plus de vingt ans dans des revues d’histoire telles que Glain et Salm, Haute Ardenne ou Segnia. La Renaissance en terre de Salm fait le point sur une période peu étudiée pour le nord Luxembourg. L’étude s’articule autour des comtes de Salm, dont Werner (1545-1629) fut le plus éminent représentant. Elle lève un coin du voile sur sa vie, sa carrière militaire et diplomatique, la lutte qu’il mena pour conserver le château et la ville de Bedburg (Allemagne), sa souveraineté sur le comté ardennais de Salm, les procès qu’il dut soutenir contre ses sujets, etc.Les biens et seigneuries des Salm-Reifferscheidt passés en revue sont situés dans les communes belges de Bertogne, Burg-Reuland, Durbuy, Gouvy, Houffalize, Lierneux, Saint-Vith, Sainte-Ode, Vielsalm, et dans la commune luxembourgeoise de Troisvierges.Les relations entre le comté de Salm et la principauté de Stavelot-Malmedy sont également examinées. Pour la première fois le lecteur pourra se faire une idée des nombreux bâtiments composant le château de Salm, des vastes campagnes de constructions de 1620 et du faste de la cour. Les diverses photographies de pierres tombales seigneuriales permettent d’admirer le raffinement des costumes. L’aspect héraldique n’est pas négligé.À l’opposé, la dure vie de labeur des paysans, les coutumes, sont abordées sur fond de guerres de religion et de bûchers aux sorcières.
Stéphanie Heyden, échevine de l’enseignement à Vielsalm

BLOG Vielsalm par Georges BENOÎT

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