Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends As of September 30th, 2015, luxroots has closed the 2014-2015 year of its two associations. luxroots.com asbl, as responsible association of the luxroots projects, just completed a great year primarily due to the diligent commitment of our associates, to the support by the Luxembourg press during the month of September 2015 and the financial support of its subscribers. Below are some key figures::50 associates, 9 new associates started during the last 12 monthsDetails of records entered as of September 30th, 2015: 1,171,279 (950,000 as per Sept 30th, 2014) i.e. 605 records per day(7/7)People connected by marriages: 325,846 (206,765 as per Sept 30th, 2014)Registered visitors: 4,1573,740 visitors receive our monthy newsletter edited in English, French and German (2,812 as per Sept 2014)751 of these visitors are supporting our projects by a subscriptionThe luxroots team participated at some exhibitions abroad: (Yutz(F), Virton(B), Metz(F), Prüm(D), Belgium(Wisconsin) and in the Grand-Duchy: Hesperange, Niederanven, Junglinster, Beckerich, Walferdange, Hupperdange, Ettelbruck, Preizerdaul, Itzig, Wincrange, Greiveldange, Brandenbourg, Echternach, Vianden, Differdange, Redange. Although the financial situation of the association is healthy, we must sooner or later resort to crowdfunding to collect the necessary funds for a redesign of our IT projects. We hope to make this IT reorganization with an independent group and finally transfer our completed projects to a public institution to better ensure their survival. If today, we talk about Luxembourg genealogy, we think luxroots. Therefore, let us build together the genealogy tree of Luxembourg! 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 non-profit 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. ▲ With 804 members as per September 30th, 2015, luxroots.club asbl is the largest genealogical association of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Apart from meetings and conferences organized monthly, 28 members visited the city of Aachen on May 9th, 2015. Following the reports, gifts purchased for the benefit of the association Le Rêve du Petit Prince were distributed to some associates. A check of 600 euros (from our luxroots Charity program) was given to the association ALAN represented by its president and treasurer. The assembly and the evening ended with a small reception. ALAN is a non-profit association of public utility. Since its creation in 1998, the association supports people with rare diseases and provides services for them and their families. luxroots invites you to support this association by becoming a member or by making a donation. Check their website for more information about this association and commitment. In Luxembourg, the donation to this association is tax deductible. luxroots.com and luxroots.club have organized the genealogical days of Luxembourg and the Greater Region in Hesperange during the weekend of 3 and 4 October 2015. This event was a great success with 21 new subscribers and two new associates. We already booked the place for the weekends of September 10-11 and October 8-9 in 2016. Check our Flashback to see pictures of the latest events! During the month of September, the Luxembourg press published some interesting articles about the luxroots project. This honors the important work of our volunteers in the context of Genealogy for present and future researchers. Apart the articles already announced in our last newsletter, here some more articles: Luxemburger Wort and Journal We would like to thank the editors for their support of the luxroots project. Many genealogy enthusiasts have registered on luxroots after reading these publications. Today, more than 4,000 visitors from around the world are registered on www.luxroots.com. 790 of these visitors support the luxroots projects! If you are not yet among these people, join them now! ▲ Please visit us at our information booth at the Walfer Bicherdeeg on the weekend of November 21-22, 2015. We invite you to our conference on former jobs given by the historian Isabelle BERNARD at the mill of Beckerich on Thurday, December 3rd, 2015 at 2:30pm. Autumn and winter with their long evenings are ideal to start or restart one's genealogy, this beautiful family leisure in search of one's ancestors. For this reason, we offer our genealogy courses for free in collaboration with the Senior clubs: Genealogy has never been easier than today! Where do I start to find my ancestors? Where can I find information? We present our genealogy project where about 50 people analyzed over a million records and entered their details in an Internet database. How to see this information, how to contribute to this project? Where to find sources, the civil register with births, marriages and deaths, annual and 10-years lists, parish registers, censuses, ... Help to better decipher the ancient writing, how to work with the Republican calendar (1792-1805), ... We show you other Internet sites that can help you in your search to find information on emigration or in the border regions. The following courses (in Luxembourgish) are scheduled: - Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 at 14.30pm at RBS in Itzig Phone 36047827 - Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Clubhaus op der Heed in Hupperdange Phone 998236-1 - Thursday, November 26th, 2015 at 7.15pm at the Centre Nicolas BRAUN in Hesperange Phone 27994713 Please register by phone at least one week in advance. ▲ During the month of October 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input: 6,795 births 1797-1912 of the township of Attert (B) by Josette TOMPERS 7,353 births 1910-1923 of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette by Josée and Richard OSTER-RASQUIN 707 births 1895-1923 of the township of Mondercange by Jean-Claude LAHYR 883 births 1895-1923 of the township of Mondorf-les-Bains by Fernand TREMUTH 526 births 1797-1823 of the former township of Post (B) by Josette TOMPERS 778 births 1866-1912 of the former township of Tontelange (B) by Josette TOMPERS 2,115 births 1800-1868 of the township of St.Vith (B) by Susi VOOSEN 1,115 baptisms 1694-1799 of the parish of Grosbous by Joseph SCHLOESSER 385 baptisms 1685-1746 of the parish of Saeul by Ferd KOEUNE 733 baptisms 1720-1803 of the parish of Vichten by Ferd KOEUNE 280 marriages 1798-1839 of the township of Bettborn by Hortense BOHLER-HAAS 258 mariages 1801-1839 of the township of Heiderscheid by Armand SERRES 2,059 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Kayl by Fernand HERMES 1,185 marriages 1860-1869 of the city of Luxembourg by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS 246 marriages 1880-1923 of the township of Stadtbredimus by Marilyn FÃœRST Which associate is currently working on what ? After updating the file of Mrs JUNG-MEYER with 5,005 people and of Vic HILGER with 1,252 people, igenealogy.lu now holds 80 trees with 206,600 people. The database of notary records now holds 10,347 records ▲
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