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Newsletter July 2015
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Working together on genealogy for the future
luxroots.com
Your partner in genealogy for Luxembourg


Our July-Newsletter with the following topics:
- luxroots presentation
- Soon, one million people in luxroots database
- Supplement on Genealogy in the 'Aktiv am Liewen' Magazine
- Our myluxroots suite
- Pedigree Charts up to 9 generations by luxroots
- Genealogy Days of Luxembourg and the Greater Region
- luxroots, ready to meet its visitors
- The couple PETRY-STURM (supplement)
- Be a luxroots associate!
- Finished data input during the month of May 2015
- Tragic accident of 6 people, who drowned in 1804 in the Moselle
- Need help?
Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends

Luxembourg American Cultural Society & Center annually organizes Luxembourg Fest of America to be held fromAugust 6 to 9,2015 in Belgium (Wisconsin). Genealogy will be the agenda of the cultural conference on August 7th, and for this reason, the organizers also invited also be the initiator of the project luxroots. Our colleague Jean ENSCH, member of LACS, will represent us and for this reason, we have prepared a presentation on our luxroots projects (in French, German and English).

Note also that Kevin WESTER just left the leadership of the LACS on May 31st. We thank him for the good relations and we wish him well in his new career.
Sara JACOBY was appointed Director of LACS. Our best wishes accompany her in this task and we hope to further improve the relationship between the Luxembourg roots!

Bob ARENS, with Luxembourgish roots and holder of the website luxembourgamericanfamilies.org visited us on May, 29th during his stay in Europe. Thank you Bob!

RBS - Center fir Altersfroen asbl has just published its magazine June 2015 Aktiv am Liewen with 8 additional pages genealogy in Luxembourg.

Even during the summer holidays, our associates continue their analysis of acts and entry details and we await the details of the millionth entry towards the end of July 2015. This is unique in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to find in a single database so many people.
Already now, we wish you a beautiful summer vacation 2015! ▲

Looking for your ancestors to establish a pedigree chart without having to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars or euros? Then, nothing simpler, register with luxroots.com, take a subscription and login!
Our myluxroots transactions, and especially the transaction Add a child of a couple allow you to enter your recent family by connecting to the ancestors already entered by one of our associates! This done, we help you to complete your pedigree chart for ancestors born and married in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg after 1800. In addition, we will reward this collaboration with myluxroots points namely:
    60 points for adding a child to a couple
    50 points for uploading a picture
    30 points for adding a person
    15 points for adding a link to documents
    10 points for adding a text (marriage data, ...)
    5 points for adding death data
    3 points for adding studies, jobs, functions, addresses
On the record of the entered person, you find a button 'Pedigree Chart' which enables you to display this chart. Check also the last 30 uploaded pictures added by our subscribers!

A pedigree chart up to 9 generations can be established for a child born after 1999, until 8 generations for young people born after 1975, until 7 generations for people born after 1949, 6 generations for people born after 1923, otherwise until 4 generations. These people were usually entered by a subscriber using the myluxroots transactions. Check this with our demo videos. ▲

Many interesting people visited our information booth at the Lernfest in Wincrange in order to know more about our projects.
Our next meetings with the visitors of our websites:

At these meetings, our associates are happy to present you the luxroots.com project and our other websites igenealogy.lu and roots.lu.
We present you our myluxroots applications for adding your recent family members in our database by connecting them to the ancestors already entered. This allows you to instantly create pedigree tables and descendant's lists.
Wherever possible, our partners help you at these meetings in your own research, or we invite you to contact us via our Helpdesk (luxroots.com/hd) to ask questions.
Visit us to learn more about the largest genealogical project of Luxembourg and neighboring areas! We thank you in advance for your presence.

Today, more than 3,600 visitors from around the world are registered on www.luxroots.com. 780 of these visitors support the luxroots projects! If you are not yet among these people, join them now! ▲

In connection with our information published in the last newsletter about the PETRY-STURM family, we must add that the birth of Marguerite has well been registered in Le Havre (France), but that the birth took place aboard the ship which left Le Havre to Saint Croix (Tenerife) (probably a boat of migrants to the continents of America), the record even said that Dominique PETRY is 3rd class passenger. Joel, thank you for this additional information!

When analyzing the records of different registers, we always find out the details of the records with good or bad news or even tragedies. Thus, our associate Marilyn FÃœRST currently working on the birth register of the municipality of Stadtbredimus just found an official report dated 11 Pluviose XII (=February 1st, 1804) concerning a fatal accident of 6 people who drowned in the Moselle. We show an excerpt from the official report below:
... au citoyen Jacques OLIVIER, maire de cette ville (Stadtbredimus), lequel nous déclare que le jour d'hier entre 3 et 4 heures de l'aprés midi six personnes avaient eu le malheur de se noyer dans la Moselle, en voulant la traverser pour se rendre à Palzem, ... ... que les six personnes noyées sont:
la Dame Marguerite WELLENSTEIN, épouse du citoyen DE LA FONTAINE, propriétaire et domicilié à Stadtbredimus;
Appoline, 26 ans; Elisabeth, 24 ans; Thérèse, 20 ans, les 3 filles ainées DE LA FONTAINE, n'ayant pu être retrouvées ni retirées de l'eau;
Henry OLIVIER, né le 06.12.1785 à Stadtbredimus, fils de Jacques OLIVIER, bourgmestre et de Marie HERTZIG;
Jean RUB, né à Grevenmacher le 05.05.1789, fils de Jean RUB (RUPPERT?), journalier et Elisabeth FEITZ (FEIT?), tous domiciliés à Stadtbredimus.
que Madame DE LA FONTAINE avait été retirée de l'eau, peu de temps après sa chute, donnant encore des signes de vie, qu'elle a été transportée sur le champ chez elle où elle est morte dans son lit une demie heure après;
que les 2 jeunes gens noyés avaient été retirés dans la matinée et qu'ils étaient déposés sur le bord de la Moselle ... ... ▲

During the month of May 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
3,222 births 1796-1879 of the township of Roeser by Jeanne MEYERS-KAYSEN
1,414 births 1839-1879 of the township of Steinfort by Edmée KARIER
184 marriages 1799-1839 of the township of Boulaide by Ferd KOEUNE
426 marriages 1840-1923 of the former township of Rodenbourg by Georges EICHER
Which associate is currently working on what ?

What great feat did our new associate Josette TOMPERS achieve? During the first 100 days (March 11th to June 18th, 2015), she entered 5,312 birth records of the township of Attert, this means 53 a day (7/7). Well done, Josette!

luxroots is the genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg whose associates do not work on personal databases, but 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. ▲

The luxroots genealogy group is your genealogy partner in Luxembourg and offers to help in your researchp.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, July 30th, 2015.

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