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Newsletter April 2015
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Working together on genealogy for the future
luxroots.com

Your partner in genealogy for Luxembourg


Our April-Newsletter with the following topics:
- Since 2004, luxroots reinvents genealogy
- At luxroots, genealogy is a hobby
- 120 triplets entered in luxroots
- luxroots needs you
- luxroots signed the Charter of Volunteering
- Finished data input during the month of March 2015
- Visit of the city of Aachen
- Pedigree Charts up to 7 generations by luxroots
- Demo videos by luxroots
- luxroots, ready to meet their visitors
- Need help?
Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites

Since 10 years, luxroots reinvents genealogy with the treatment of all archival material related to genealogy. In luxroots, genealogy is not made through a family research but by the systematic and standardized data entry of details of all birth / baptism, marriage and death record available for our region.
In luxroots, records of all person are treated and details of records are entered in our common database, be they stillbirths; abandoned children; illegitimate children; children and young people who died in their early years; single or married people with or without offspring. We respect every person, whether a child of a peddler or a noble! For example, some finds:

The death certificate of October 23rd, 1897 under number 19, signed by Johann Michael HESS, mayor of the town of Vianden, informs the death of a child of 3 months on October 21st. Emile with his first name, born in Luxembourg, was given to the care of Madame Marie BEDESSEM, unmarried woman. Neither persons declaring the death nor the adoptive mother knew the child's name. (This record was registered in luxroots on December 27th, 2013 by Agnès SERRES-HEINEN).
With the subsequent data entering of the birth of the city of Luxembourg by Paulette GRUN-BESCH and especially to the record Nbr 298 dated July 21st, 1897, we were able to give the name to the child. Indeed, BRUCH Emil was born in Luxembourg on July 20th, 1897 as a natural child of an unmarried girl of 23 year-old from another town in the Grand Duchy.


According to the information from Wikipedia, there was a twin born on 85 births, a triplet all 7,000 births. (The number of twins or triplets has risen sharply in recent decades in industrialized countries partly as a result of the use of assisted fertilization).
In luxroots, we entered up to now at least 120 children born triplets in 38 different localities including 9 in Diekirch.
Paulette GRUN-BESCH has entered on February 13th,2015 triplets children of the couple SCHOMMER-GUILLAUME living in the house at 8 Clausenerberg in Luxembourg. Births of children were declared on August 30th, 1895 at 4pm: Johann born yesterday, August 29th at noon; Peter was born yesterday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and Marie was born at 7 in the morning.
An announcement in the Luxemburger Wort of September 14th, 1895, found via the website
eluxemburgensia.lu, informs that the mother died on September 13th, that the SCHOMMER father is now alone with 7 minors and newborns are healthy - apparently it was not the case as the children died within days: Pierre on 15th, Marie on 16th and Jean on September 17th - what a tragedy!

luxroots is the Genealogy project of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and neighboring regions. This cross-border and non-profit project is the result of the daily work of more than 50 volunteers.
In luxroots, genealogy is a hobby, not a business such as practiced by some genealogists. Our associates exercise this hobby by processing archival documents especially in relation with genealogy and local history to help current family researchers, but primarily to help future generations in their research. With our analysis and entry of details of records, the deciphering of ancient scriptures in such records remains feasible in the future.

Fortunately, many family researchers from Luxembourg and around the world trust us by supporting our projects by subscription or by joining luxroots.club. This association, founded in June 2014, has increased the number of its members from 637 on October 1st, 2014 to 753 currently. So luxroots confirms its leading position in genealogy in Luxembourg far exceeding the overall number of members of other genealogical associations of Luxembourg.

With more than 930,000 dead people, luxroots is now one of the largest databases of Luxembourg, across all economic sectors. 930,000 people with their dates and places of birth, their parents and the latter with profession and age at the birth of their children. Meanwhile, luxroots holds children of some 300,000 weddings; more than 83,000 marriages with their dates and places, but also with all the details of the newlyweds and their wedding witnesses.

The work continues. After entering the details of over one million records, we still have a huge job to do. During March, one new associate is joining the luxroots team:
- Josette TOMPERS, Perlé with the births of the township of Attert


luxroots is the genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg whose 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.

If you are interested in learning more about our projects, visit us on Friday, May 15th, from 2pm to 5pm in Itzig (RBS, 20,rue de Contern) in the framework of the 72 Stonnen Benevolat organized by the Agence du Bénévolat.

During the month of March 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
526 births 1895-1923 of the former township of
Rodenbourg by Georges EICHER
762 births 1895-1923 of the township of
Schuttrange by Georges EICHER
1,277 births 1895-1923 of the township of
Steinfort by Carlo PEIFFER
2,551 baptisms 1761-1778 of the parish of
Echternach by Ramona LINCK-GAMBUCCI
1,247 baptisms 1698-1807 of the parish of
Ell by Heng LEYDER
1,250 baptisms 1700-1793 of the parish of
Hemstal by Catherine RENSCHLER
516 baptisms 1725-1804 of the parish of
Reisdorf by Linda GEDINK
475 baptisms 1702-1797 of the parish of
Roodt-sur-Syre by Monique and Jean-Paul MOURIS-BERNARD
167 marriages 1800-1839 of the township of
Hoscheid by Christiane KRIER-PETERS
511 marriages 1851-1923 of the township of
Walferdange by Mariette BORSCHETTE-BISSEN
Which associate is currently working on what ?

On
igenealogy.lu, we added the file of Vic HILGER, Leudelange) with 777 people. This database now holds 81 trees with 193,000 people.

A pedigree chart up to 7 generations can now be established for any person born after 1953, usually entered by a subscriber using the myluxroots transactions. Check this with our demo videos.
Use the transaction 'Add a child of a couple' to relate the child to its parents and thus a pedigree chart up to 7 generations can be produced for that child.

To better introduce you to our websites and our applications, we have made some demo videos you find on this page.

luxroots.club asbl organizes a visit of the City of Aachen on Saturday, May 9th, 2015 - information and registration with this link.

Our next meetings with the visitors of our websites:
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 luxroots genealogy group is your genealogy partner in Luxembourg and offers to help in your research
With the permission of the author Joseph TOUBON we published some articles on our pages:
-
La frontière à Poteau, entre les communes de Petit-Thier et de Recht, en 1940-1942
- Cantons rattachés à la Belgique en 1920

Our library was enlarged with a few books following a donation of our colleague Fons WILTGEN namely the books of families of Mercy-le-Haut Boudrezy 1660-1905, of Thil 1752-1903, of Tiercelet 1692-1904 and of Villerupt 1694-1903.

p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015.

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