Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends For Christmas 2015, we do for our registered visitors a short quiz on the luxroots projects in which you can participate until December 31st, 2015. There are 30 prices to be won, like some luxroots subscriptions (annual, half-yearly or monthly) and vouchers for myluxroots points for a total value of 230 euros. All registered visitors can take part in the quiz once unless they have obtained less than 8 correct answers in the first test. Every 3rd winner with 10 points is offered a price, which is displayed at the bottom of the answer page, and a message is sent to him/her automatically. Please forward this message to info@luxroots.com for the award. We wish you all good luck! ... continue to the quiz! Until December 31, 2015, we offer, apart from the 10% discount for luxroots.club members, big discounts on our PDF documents with details of births/baptisms of a certain family name (30%) and/or of a certain township/parish (20%). Looking for your pedigree chart or a list of descendants of one of your ancestors up to 9 generations without having to pay hundreds or even thousands of euros. With a luxroots subscription, you will be likely to find them. luxroots is the largest genealogical project of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The nonprofit association luxroots.com is the manager of this project. More than 50 volunteers are working on this project so that our subscribers can establish their genealogy easier and to allow future generations to decipher the writings of ancient documents more easily. ▲ Without the need for a genealogy program, our subscribers use our myluxroots applications and make luxroots their genealogy center. We love this collaboration of our subscribers adding additional information in the common database whether they are recent members of their family, photos, information about their education, occupations, functions, information on marriage or death. In addition, we will reward this collaboration with myluxroots points they can use elsewhere on our websites. Check also the last 30 uploaded pictures added by our subscribers! Use especially the transaction Add a child of a couple to enter your recent family by connecting to the ancestors already entered by you or by one of our associates! 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. Starting from now, if you ask a pedigree chart of 6 or 9 generations, luxroots offers you to return a list of descendants also up to 6 or 9 generations. Data of people born during the last 100 years can be seen only by the subscriber who entered them. To promote teamwork on the same genealogy, luxroots gives the possibility to a subscriber through the myFriends transaction to authorize another subscriber to view information of the last 100 years and vice versa. Thus, it is easier to work together on their family as couples as for example: Cousin&Cousin, grandfather&grand-son, uncle&nephew, even geographically dispersed. You can take at better overview of your entered data with our transactions myPersons, myPictures, myLinks, myStudiesJobsFunctions, myInfo and myDeathInfo. These lists can also be useful to update your entered information. Today, more than 4,300 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! luxroots provides its registered visitors an application of research contacts among registered luxroots visitors who have given their permission. These contacts can possibly help you in your genealogical research. 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. ▲ After entering 92% of birth records 1798 to 1923 and 58% of marriage records 1840-1923 of the the Grand Duchy, we need to focus more on entering baptisms before 1800 mainly written in Latin. For this reason, we plan to focus in reading Latin records at our next meetings in January and February 2016 training. If interested, please be present at these information sessions in Hesperange which are hold in the Centre Nicolas Braun on:Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 from 2 to 4:30pm andThursday, February 23rd, 2016 from 2 to 4:30pm ▲ In our last newsletter, we reported on our work in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and today on our work in the Eifel region. This area mainly belonged to the Duchy of Luxembourg since 1300. In 1815, the Congress of Vienna decided that this part should be ceded to Prussia. From one day to another, whole families were torn apart and were living on different sides of this new frontier. Fortunately, relations between people of the region were still good as is shown by many cross-border marriages. Many Eifel people migrated to other regions and countries, and also to Luxembourg. Therefore, luxroots started early up from 2006/2007 its genealogical research in this region. Today, you find in our database the details of 62,000 births of the former municipalities of the 'Verbandsgemeinden' Arzfeld (1798-1914) and Südeifel (without Irrel) (1821-1914) entered on the basis of copies of records. We should complete this entry in 2016. It is primarily our couple Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN who realized mostly these entries together with Georges EICHER, Armand GILLEN, Aloyse JODOCY, Tiger NICHOLAAS and Uwe PROBST. 2,800 marriages in this region have already been entered and will be completed by the end of 2017. The genealogy association, having worked extensively in the region, is the Westdeutsche Gesellschaft für Familienforschung.. In recent years and decades, this association has published many family books for a given parish. If you are a member of this association, you can view up to 600 family books of this region. The annual membership fee is 40 euros. Even without contribution, you can consult at least the ABC lists for certain family books and a multitude of other information. The new family books can be ordered via their shop. Where do we find records of birth, marriage and death in the region? In general, the 'Verbandsgemeinden' in the region keep the records of the last 100 years of their merged municipalities. The earlier records were mostly transmitted to the different 'Kreisarchive' or even to the Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz.. To view the records of the 19th century, take you an appointment with the Kreisarchiv Bitburg.. The consultation is free. Rumors tell us that the records of the Eifelkreis will be digitized shortly and that copies of these documents will be posted in the coming years like the Belgian and Luxembourgish records. Regarding the parish registers of the region, we can recommend a visit to the Bistumsarchiv Trier. First check their inventory of parish records and family books and take an appointment. On-site consultation is free. The Städtische Bücherei - Bibliothek der Dr. Hanns-Simon-Stiftung currently holds more than 60,000 media. A visit to this library in Bitburg is primarily interesting for the family researcher (in Trier-Eifel region), since it can be viewed here on site over 250 family books. Free entry. Secondary sources, such as family books, are good indications, but, as we know well enough, nothing goes without copies of records if you want to produce a good genealogy. Regarding family books, missing or incorrect information persist for eternity. Our websites have at least the advantage that we can update missing or incorrect data in seconds. And in case you inform us about an incorrect information, we reward you by myluxroots points. The Wallonia region will be treated in one of our next newsletters. ▲ We are often asked about the difference between the 3 Luxembourgish Genealogical Associations. We try to give our response below:The Luxembourg Association of Genealogy and Heraldry (ALGH), founded on April 25th, 1984 by 45 people (including the initiator of the luxroots project), has his headquarter in Mersch. Over the years, the association has published an official information sheet, 'Familjefuerscher' and sixteen important year books. A team of volunteers has transcribed the marriages from parish registers before 1800 in a file available at the association's headquarters on the 4th floor of the Castle of Mersch. This work is currently also available in the records of parish registers published by FamilySearch. The leaders of the association have assembled a very nice library of genealogical and historical books and can be checked at their headquarter. The association is not active on the Internet. The annual membership fee is 20 euros.The above-mentioned teamwork inspired Georges EICHER in 1998 to develop a draft for standardized and systematic entry of details of birth / baptism, marriage and death records. The internet with its monthly subscription and the digital camera were the needed basis to start this ambitious project in 2004. Without images of records available online at this time, a first job was to take pictures of all records of a township or parish from microfilm at the National Archives or from the original at the townships. These pictures with the records of a township / parish were then delivered on CD/DVD to a luxroots-associate ready to analyze the records and to enter the details of these records in the common database of the project. It is this teamwork of volunteers as part of a non-profit project that characterizes the luxroots.com association based in Howald unlike a solitary work (search for heirs, family trees or tables on order, ..) often linked to significant financial resources. With an annual subscription of 22 euros or 19 euros in subscription renewal, the subscriber can access applications, databases and services of the luxroots group. With over 800 subscribers and associates, luxroots confirms its leading position in genealogy in Luxembourg far exceeding the overall number of members of other genealogical associations of Luxembourg.The 3rd organization, luxracines, with headquarter in Bereldange was founded in 2009, mainly by holders of genealogical websites to serve as genealogy portal to their personal websites. Like luxroots, this association organizes conferences, visits to archives and libraries. The annual membership fee is 20 euros. The access to personal websites must be requested and approved, often in exchange of genealogy research.Why pay 3 times if you can get almost everything with a single payment. Therefore, support the non-profit luxroots projects with a subscription if you do not already do so! ▲ During the month of December 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input: 3,558 naissances 1895-1913 of the former township of Eich by Mariette BORSCHETTE-BISSEN (1895-1908) and Paulette GRUN-BESCH (1909-1913) 4,548 births 1900-1909 of the city of Esch-sur-Alzette by Josée and Richard OSTER-RASQUIN 2,170 births 1799-1915 of the former township Lichtenborn (Arzfeld) by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN 617 births 1876-1912 of the former township Sélange (Messancy) by Pierre SIDON 333 births 1913-1916 of the former township Neuerburg-Land by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN 921 marriages 1849-1913 of the former township Rollingergrund(Luxembourg) by Armand SERRES-HEINEN Which associate is currently working on what ? After adding of the Gedcom file of Gérald PIQUET-MICHOT with 10,331 people, our website igenealogy.lu now holds 81 trees with 217,000 people. The database of notary records now holds 10,347 records ▲ The Genealogy Days of Luxembourg and the Greater Region 2016 take place on the weekend from October 8-9th at the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange. Donate myluxroots points to luxroots CHARITY and help us to support various actions of charity organizations. Merry Christmas from the luxroots team Our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, December 31st, 2015.
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