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Newsletter February 2016
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Working together on genealogy for the future
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The Genealogy Center for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
and for the neighboring regions in Belgium and Germany

now with 1,254,708 records
1,094,983 birth records and 51,864 death records
381.788 birth records (34.87%) linked through 107,861 marriage records.



Our February 2016 newsletter with the following topics:
- 2016, a good start
- Genealogy in the Province of Luxembourg (Belgium)
- Be a luxroots associate!
- Learning Latin to analyze parish registers
- Finished data input during the month of Jaunary 2016
- Genealogy in the Eifel region
- Need help?
- Congratulations on the 15th birthday to Wikipedia
- LACS Discover Luxembourg Tour 2016
- The Luxembourg Nationality
- 3 young man of our region in the papal zuaves
- 10-years tables of Paris until 1932(b) and 1974(d)
- Television report on Genealogy
- Further events; exhibitions, information meetings
- luxroots-calendar about the genealogy meetings and events

Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends

The year 2016 looks promising! We assume that more and more family researchers worldwide appreciate that they can find information about their ancestors from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and from the Belgian and German border regions in one place. Thus, they do not need to scan half a dozen regional websites or browse through dozens of family books they have to acquire first.

In our neighboring countries, Belgium, France, and Germany, most local or regional genealogists are working on the same database owned by their associations to which they belong. These associations publish the work of their members on their websites or in book form. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is an exception. Our local and regional researchers continue to work on their personal databases and the profit from the sale of family books go back to their authors. Only the luxroots.com association with their 54 volunteers work together on a common and nonprofit database.


Now we begin our main article in this newsletter to inform you about the genealogy in the Province of Luxembourg.
In Belgium and France, many associations are working with the
ExpoActes database with more than 78 million records such the associations of the provinces of Luxembourg and Namur: Wallonia-asbl, Libramont-Chevigny, Philippeville, Dinant and Gesves. Sometimes, consultation is free and/or limited or must even be paid.
Our neighbor-club of Arlon
SCGD Gelux is the genealogical association for the province of Luxembourg, dependind from the SCGD in Brussels (Centralized Service for Demographic and Genealogical Studies of Belgium).

Reading rooms for the
Belgian State Archives are located for the province of Luxembourg in Arlon (for the south region) and in Saint-Hubert (for the northwestern part). For a visit to these archives, you must have an access card of 20 euros per year.
In past years, the Archives of the Belgian State have made a considerable effort by
posting most of their records of parish and civil registers (23 million pages) online. For the consultation of these records, you must have a free access userid.
Meanwhile, FamilySearch.org has put the majority of records of Civil Registers of Belgium including those of the
province of Luxembourg online.
You find direct links to the above-mentioned research
on our main page.

A very large part of the former Duchy of Luxembourg was given to Belgium in 1839 and this part now forms the province of Luxembourg. From one day to the pther, 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 Luxembourgers emigrated to Belgium to find there work. This Belgian-Luxembourg border is also a linguistic border (French-German). Therefore, in the records of the parish registers, you often find place names in French, German or even in Luxemburgisch (eg Tintange, Tentingen/Tintingen, Tënnen; Cetturu, Schätereg or Scheitrich). Often it is the same with surnames that change from WATHIER to WATGEN, MATHIEU to MATGEN, ETIENNE to STEFFEN or ETGEN, PETIT to Klein, and many others.

From early 2005, luxroots started genealogical research in the border municipalities of the province of Luxembourg. Today, you find details of 128,000 births entered on basis of copies of the original records in the luxroots database. Mainly Joseph LEONARD and Joel SCHMIT as well as André SCHMITZ, Josette TOMPERS, René MARX, Luc JEANGILLE and Georges EICHER have done this work. The data input of marriages and deaths of this area has already been started (6,199 marriages, and 4,996 deaths).



The data input of the details of records goes on quickly. We are looking for more volunteers to enter the details of birth records of the municipalities of Aubange (Athus, Halanzy, Rachecourt), Arlon (Arlon, Bonnert, Guirsch, Heinsch, Toernich), Messancy (Habergy, Hondelange, Wolkrange); of marriage and death records of former municipalities of Attert, Bastogne, Fauvillers, Gouvy, Houffalize Martelange and others.

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.

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
April 20th, 2016, Wednesday at 7pm, Hall of the Municipal Council in Bovigny, luxroots information meeting


After entering 94% of the birth records 1798 to 1923 and 59% of the marriage records 1840-1923 of the Grand Duchy, we need to focus more strongly on entering baptisms before 1800 mainly written in Latin. 30 members participated at the first session on reading Latin records by our associates Hortense BOHLER-HAAS, Christiane KRIER-PETERS and Jeanne MEYERS-KAYSEN. Download the final document of this first session. The second session will be held in the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange on: Thursday, February 23rd, 2016 from 2:00 to 4:30pm
If you want to include a Latin-written record in the next documentation, please
send it us in high resolution until February 10th, 2016.

During the month of January 2016, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
1,715 births 1895-1923 of the township of
Schifflange by Micheline&Fernand HERMES-METZ
2,521 births 1797-1923 of the township of
Waldbredimus by Paulette GRUN-BESCH
2,397 baptisms 1685-1797 of the parish of
Bissen by Joseph SCHLOESSER
2,899 baptisms 1663-1706 of the parish of
Echternach by Ramona&Marcel LINCK-GAMBUCCI
916 baptisms 1738-1794 of the parish of
Flaxweiler by Monique&Jean-Paul MOURIS-BERNARD
47 marriages 1797-1823 of the former township of
Colpach by Heng LEYDER
407 marriages 1840-1849 of the former township of
Eich by Marilyn FÃœRST
191 marriages 1798-1839 of the township of
Ell by Heng LEYDER
1,344 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of
Hesperange by Georges EICHER
57 marriages 1800-1823 of the former township of
Holtz by Ferd KOEUNE
1,198 marriages 1870-1879 of the city of
Luxembourg by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS
272 marriages 1799-1838 of the township of
Martelange by Ferd KOEUNE
80 marriages 1910-1916 of the former township of
Neuerburg-Land by Agnès&Armand SERRES-HEINEN
147 marriages 1801-1839 of the township of
Reisdorf by Christiane KRIER-PETERS
256 marriages 1850-1870 of the former township of
Thommen (Burg-Reuland) by Irma JODOCY-HENTZ
1,439 deaths 1870-1923 of the township of
Koerich by Pol HORNICK
Which associate is currently working on what ?

The map (click to enlarge) shows mainly the parishes of the northern Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It was established by Claude SCHILTZ on the basis of cadastral sections as they existed in 1778. 97% of baptisms (before 1800) of these parishes have already been registered in luxroots; we are still working on Asselborn and Ettelbruck. Apart from these parishes, many baptisms of southern parishes have already been entered. Visit our
inventory of parishes.


Thank you Nicole PYCKHOUT, who send us the death data of three young mans of our regions who served as papal zouave: FISCH Pierre born 1831 in Diekirch, MERCIER Hubert Joseph born 1825 in Moinet (Longvilly), et SCHEUER Jules born 1847 in Grevenmacher

The archives of Paris inform that further 10-year tables are now availablonline: births until 1932, marriages until 1940 and deaths until 1974.

You need 7 minutes to look at this Genealogy report (in German) published by the swr.de on Jauary 13th, 2016

Here 2 links to death notices from
Belgium and France.

Congratulations on the 15th birthday to Wikipedia. This encyclopedia has changed the world during those years. Sharvil from India writes in the birthday book 'Wikipedia is like an all-knowing grandpa'. Since 2008, luxroots support this magnificent project as we have linked many of our data with Wikipedia information. Thanks Wikipedia!

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Our next newsletter will be sent on February 25th, 2016.


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