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Newsletter January 2016
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luxroots.com

The Genealogy Center for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
and for the neighboring regions in Belgium and Germany



Our January 2016 newsletter with the following topics:
- 2015, a very good year for luxroots
- Be a luxroots associate!
- Learning Latin to analyze parish registers
- How to create a pedigree chart?
- Finished data input during the month of December 2015
- Old newspapers on eluxemburgensia.lu
- Genealogy in the Eifel region
- luxroots TOP20 Statistics
- Need help?
- The Luxembourg Nationality
- luxroots-calendar about the genealogy meetings and events

Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends

Goodbye 2015, welcome 2016
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.

Today, the luxroots genealogy group is finishing today an exceptional year mainly due to the commitment of our hardworking volunteers, to the financial support of our subscribers and to the many articles published in the Luxembourg press during 2015.

The number of records entered has grown since January 1st, 2013 (607,251) to more than 1.231.310 with a daily average (7/7) of 592 in 2015. For this year, birth records has been increased by 20% to 1.077,230, marriage records by 33% and the death records by 16%. 366,028 people are currently connected to a marriage.

luxroots entered, in the North region of Luxembourg (Diekirch) alone, more birth&baptism records than the total number op persons of the next Genealogy website of Luxembourg.
Click on the graph to enlarge it!!

The number of registered visitors has increased in 2015 from 3,377 to 4,369. 3,924 receive our monthly newsletter.

In 2015, 6 associates stopped their collaboration. We thank them for their commitment over the past years. 12 new associates have joined our team: Monique and Jean-Paul MOURIS-BERNARD, Robert EVERLING, Roland VAN DEN BROECK, Catherine RENSCHLER, Marie Antoinette KERGER, Micheline HELLERS-THEUNISSEN, Josette TOMPERS, Annick DOLISY, Lydie EHLERINGER, Pierre SIDON, Joseph FEROUMONT et John SCHMIT.
A dynamic team of 54 volunteers are actually working for this cross-border and non-profit project.

755 visitors support the luxroots projects by an annual subscription. If you are not yet among these people,
join them now!

39 subscribers and associates participated at our Christmas meeting. See some pictures taken by our associate Armand GILLEN
with this link.

 
TOP20-surnames
SCHMIT12495
MULLER8463
WEBER7864
SCHMITZ6816
THILL5890
WAGNER5787
WAGENER5397
KLEIN5221
HOFFMANN5010
WELTER4617
SCHROEDER4471
REUTER4156
KREMER3840
HANSEN3478
SIMON3410
MAJERUS3386
MEYER3361
THEIS3332
FABER3283
SCHNEIDER3203
Births&Baptisms
TOP20-Towns
LUXEMBOURG43950
ECHTERNACH21615
ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE16404
DUDELANGE14602
DIEKIRCH14598
WILTZ11118
ETTELBRUCK10597
VIANDEN8949
GREVENMACHER8567
RUMELANGE7670
BASTOGNE6888
NEUFCHâTEAU6357
BEAUFORT6103
BISSEN5962
BONNEVOIE5814
DIFFERDANGE5810
BETTEMBOURG5726
NEUERBURG5532
HOLLERICH5272
CLERVAUX5036
Births&Baptisms
TOP20-Township/Parish
Luxembourg58419
Echternach27327
Diekirch21225
Eich21003
Esch-sur-Alzette16731
Hollerich15695
Dudelange15593
Ettelbruck13726
B-Vielsalm13718
Wiltz12015
Differdange11574
Kayl11167
Basbellain10608
Mersch9921
Feulen9818
Pétange9360
Beckerich9062
Kehlen9005
Vianden8948
Grevenmacher8703
Marriages
TOP20-Township/Parish
Luxembourg4033
Wiltz2881
Ettelbruck2067
Kayl2061
Diekirch1878
Echternach1863
Pétange1862
Mersch1615
autre1590
B-Vielsalm1533
Hosingen1484
Basbellain1417
Weiswampach1405
Niederanven1349
Vianden1340
Clervaux1300
Heiderscheid1276
Junglinster1227
Redange1195
Bettendorf1121
Deaths
TOP20-Township/Parish
Asselborn3052
Bastendorf2262
Hosingen2208
Perlé1842
Weiswampach1826
Basbellain1729
B-Longlier1717
Vianden1682
Munshausen1652
Consdorf1638
Beaufort1635
Clervaux1551
Heinerscheid1546
Folschette1515
Manternach1386
Pütscheid1366
Koerich1303
Harlange1258
Waldbillig1246
Goesdorf1204
Top-100

For 2016, we hope to enter 140,000 birth/baptism records, 40,000 marriage records and 20,000 death records.

To move even faster with these entries, we need you! 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 93% of birth records 1798 to 1923 and 59% of marriage records 1840-1923 of the the Grand Duchy, we need to focus more on entering baptisms before 1800 mainly written in Latin.



Further events
March 13th, 2016, Sunday, from 8am to 5pm, Sammlermaart in Ettelbruck, with a luxroots information booth
March 27-28th, 2016, Sunday and Monday, Ousterausstellung at Preizerdaul, with a luxroots information booth
March 31st, 2016, Thursday at 7pm, Hall of the Municipal Council in Houffalize, luxroots information meeting

During the month of December 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
322 births 1913-1916 of the former township of
Körperich (Südeifel) by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
57 births 1915-1916 of the former township of
Neuerburg-Stadt (Südeifel) by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
1,351 births 1796-1838 of the township of
Steinfort by Carlo PEIFFER
720 baptisms 1763-1806 of the parish of
Bettendorf by Linda GEDINK
9.046 baptisms 1623-1805 of the parish of
Diekirch by Christiane KRIER-PETERS
776 baptisms 1670-1820 of the parish of
Wolwelange by Ferd KOEUNE
78 marriages 1910-1916 of the former township of
Körperich by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
Which associate is currently working on what ?

2 new associates joined our team and have already entered more 500 birth records:
Joseph FEROUMONT, Liège with the birth records of the former township of Grand-Halleux (Vielsalm)
John SCHMIT, Biwer with the birth records of the city of Grevenmacher (1890-1923)

Our website igenealogy.lu now holds 81 trees with 217,000 people. The database of notary records now holds 10,347 records

Since several years, the National Library puts on its website eluxemburgensia.lu old newspapers to browse with a word search in the full text. Here is the updated list of available newspapers.

Donate myluxroots points to luxroots CHARITY and help us to support various actions of charity organizations.

Our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, January 28th, 2016.


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