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Goodbye 2014, welcome 2015
We wish you good health, productive research using our websites, the fortune of finding the ancestor you have been looking for for a long time and patience to achieve your genealogy.
Luxroots has just completed a year of breaking all records with a significant increase in visitors to our websites. Never before have, as many family researchers, supported our volunteer projects with a subscription. We have passed the gap of one million records and we confirm our leading position in genealogical databases of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Check our inventory of finished data input.
Compared to 2013, the number of records entered increased during 2014 by 26%, the births by 26%, marriages with 15%, deaths by 44%. Active registered people increased by 17%, recipients of our Newsletter by 17%, subscribers by 25% and the associates by 6%. Note also that this newsletter is sent to 2,997 registered visitors.
With over 700 members, luxroots.club is the largest genealogical association of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
But we do not want to stop there, but will continue with our team to become the Genealogy Center for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and even the border regions. In the medium term (by 2020), the online production of pedigree charts and descendants'lists of up to 10 generations for anyone born, married or dead in the region should be possible. In the long term (by 2025), even all the details from death records of civil and parish registers (~ 1600-1923) of our region should be available.
To get there, we need you. Luxroots is the genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg where its associates do not work on personal databases, but they enter data online directly to the luxroots-database. That's why working together makes us so powerful. Provided that you are able to analyze records of civil registers or even of parish registers, and you want to be part of a dynamic team of volunteers as part of the cross-border and non-profit project, please contact us!
You do not need to go to townships or to archives. 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. Check our inventory of records of townships/parishes to be analyzed soon or other available documents.
As a luxroots subscriber, we provide you with a suite of applications to give you the ability to add, in compliance with Luxembourg law, your recent family members ie. born from 1895 to today, to relate to people already entered in our database, and thus obtain a pedigree chart for your entered people.
You can add to any record of a person in the luxroots database additonal informations such as studies, professions, functions; postal or electronic addresses; one or more information about a marriage, migration, ..; images from your computer to the luxroots server; links to a document, a website, a picture ..
Check the last 30 uploaded pictures with this link.
As a subscriber, starting from January 2015 we increased the myluxroots points to add these data by 100%. Therefore, visit our myluxroots page.
During the year 2015, you have the opportunity to get to know our projects and our associates at various events where we are present with an information stand. The next Genealogy Days of Luxembourg and the Greater Region will be held the weekend of September 19 to 20, 2015 in Hesperange.
| 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.
29e Bourse aux collectionneurs
Stamps, postcards, coins, books, ...
at the Däichhal in Ettelbruck
Sunday, March 8th, 2015 from 8am to 5pm |
During the last day of December 2014, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
7.899 births 1797-1899 of the city of Dudelange by Micheline and Fernand HERMES-METZ
1.476 births 1856-1923 of the township of Reckange-sur-Mess by Jean-Claude LAHYR
1.529 baptisms 1701-1809 of the parish of Eppeldorf by Linda GEDINK
174 baptisms 1704-1796 of the parish Fennange by Chantal WEBER-BECKER
121 marriages 1797-1839 of the former township of Alscheid by Armand SERRES-HEINEN
506 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Heffingen by Marcelle SCHUMMER and Georges EICHER
124 marriages 1904-1923 of the township of Septfontaines by Marilyn FÃœRST
459 marriages 1797-1839 of the township of Vianden by Agnès SERRES-HEINEN
1.646 death records 1840-1923 of the township of de Munshausen by John EICHER
Which associate is currently working on what ?
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!
The Geschichtsfrënn vun der Gemeng Hesper, local historical association in the township of Hesperange together with the township of Hesperange present their new book in relation with the township on January 21st, 2015 - more details with this document (in German).
If you are interested in courses for learning old handwritings given by the National archives, then send us a message.
p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Friday, January 30th, 2015.
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