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Working together on genealogy for the future
luxroots.com
The Genealogy Center for the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
and for the neighboring regions in Belgium and Germany
now with the details of 1,667,105 records

Our Christmas 2017 and January 2018 newsletter with the following topics: (our newsletters of the last 12 months)

- In memoriam Joseph SCHLOESSER
- Finished data input during the month of December 2017
- luxroots publishes your Gedcom file for free
- Be a luxroots associate!
- myluxroots transactions
- luxroots brochure
- 50% discount on our documents
- Discover Luxembourg Tour 2018

- Contacts for your searches
- luxroots Christmas meeting
- Gift ideas for Christmas
- The Luxembourg Nationality
- Need help?
- new publications
- Further events; exhibitions, information meetings
- luxroots-calendar about the genealogy meetings and events

Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends

Joseph SCHLOESSER Our associate Joseph SCHLOESSER died November 29th, 2017.

After his research on his families, he joined the genealogy project luxroots.com and worked on the baptisms of the following parishes: Bissen, Boulaide, Eschdorf, Feulen, Goesdorf, Grosbous, Heiderscheid, Mersch, Niederwiltz, Oberwampach, Pintsch, Surré and Vianden.
Currently, he worked on the marriages of the parish of Niederwiltz.

We join the family in their mourning and express our deepest sympathy to his wife.
Joseph, thank you for your commitment to our project that will keep a memory of you forever.

Our volunteers finished the following data input during the month of December 2017:
438 baptisms 1746-1797 Fentange by Jeanne MEYERS-KAYSEN
2,001 baptisms 1635-1797 Garnich by Josée and Richard OSTER-RASQUIN
1,429 baptisms 1653-1797 Mompach by Roby GROSCH
2,441 baptisms 1670-1796 Neunkirchen (Bous) by Jean-Paul GASPERINI

39 marriages 1745,1769-1796 Cruchten by Linda GEDINK
1,445 marriages 1665-1698, 1743-1797 Niederwiltz by Joseph SCHLOESSER (+)
315 marriages 1798-1829 Betzdorf by Monique and Jean-Paul MOURIS-BERNARD
46 marriages 1801-1823 Cruchten by Linda GEDINK
300 marriages 1797-1839 Waldbillig by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS

3,162 deaths 1860-1923 Hobscheid by Pol HORNICK
969 deaths 1820-1861 Karlshausen (Südeifel) by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
335 deaths 1860-1869 Koerich by Pol HORNICK
Which associate is currently working on what ?

Our website igenealogy.lu, where you can publish your GEDCOM file for free, now holds 90 trees with 252,700 people. Give us yours and we will publish it for free on this site.. ▲

Our PDF documents for Christmas and the New Year with a discount of almost 50%
Until January 15th, 2018,
we offer, apart from the 10% discount for luxroots.club members, a special 40% discount
on our PDF documents with details of births/baptisms of a certain family name.
Check the specimen list (the STEINFORT family name).
Buy a document from this page and get back 50% in your myluxroots points account. ▲

For your searches, you do not need to have a special genealogy program, neither free nor paid. Through the myluxroots transactions, more than 400 subscribers and associates have already entered their recent family members to luxroots linking them to the ancestors already entered earlier by our volunteers. If you add 7 family members (1924-2017) in our database, it is possible to get a pedigree chart with 1,000 ancestors (10 generations), and this in 10 minutes, not to mention the ability to create lists of descendants of these ancestors instantly. In Luxembourg, you will find nothing comparable to our project and for this reason, please help us to assemble the large Grand Duchy of Luxembourg genealogy puzzle and the neighboring regions. Check the pedigree charts of Christiane , Hortense , Paulette and Serge . Do the same, we will support you!
How to link a death notice I found on eluxemburgensia.lu with the record of the deceased person in luxroots? See our Demo-Video. (We suggest to open the video with the Firefox Browser.)
Check the list of the last uploaded pictures by our subscribers and volunteers!
If you are not yet a luxroots-subscriber, join them now!▲

Let us build together the genealogy tree of Luxembourg! luxroots is the genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg whose volunteers 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. If 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 . ▲

Learn more about genealogy in general and the luxroots projects in particular at our information booths & meetings. Ask for your Din A3 form of a pedigree chart over 5 generations.
January 23rd, Tuesday at 2:30pm, How to start your genealogy, with luxroots at the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange

February 25th, Sunday from 10am to 6pm, luxroots information booth at the Day of Local History in Vichten

February 27th, Tuesday at 2:30pm, luxroots monthly meeting at the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange

March 11th, Sunday from 8am to 17pm, luxroots information booth at the Sammlermaart in the Daichhall in Ettelbruck ▲

a book as a gift for Christmas
Les PARRIES au Luxembourg, a book of 240 pages with 300 pictures and a register of 1.400 family names, ... follow these links for further information and an excerpt of the book (29 pages)
Mil GOERENS published a new book: 'Soen', legends from Luxembourg and the border regions.

Contact other luxroots users in order to work together on a common family name. 4,400 luxroots users have already given their consent.

A special message to our US-American friends.
The Luxembourg American Cultural Society organizes the Discover Luxembourg Tour 2018 from September 28th to October 7th, 2018. If you want to join them to visit the countries of your ancestors (Luxembourg, Belgium, France and Germany), visit this page to get more information on that 2018 tour.

12 months remain to make your request for recovery of the dual citizenship in Luxembourg

A new law on Luxembourg nationality entered into force on 1 January 2009.
B. RE-ACQUISITION OF LUXEMBOURG NATIONALITY
2. Case of a person with a grandparent who had Luxembourg nationality by origin (article 29)
The law of 23 October 2008 on Luxembourg nationality has introduced a new case of re-acquisition, the application of which is limited in time.
A person can re-acquire Luxembourg nationality provided:
- he or she has a male or female ancestor, who possessed Luxembourg nationality on the date of 1 January 1900; and
- he or she is the descendant in a paternal or maternal line of said grandparent.
The interested party can trace back each generation in the paternal or maternal line to establish whether he or she is the descendant of a Luxembourg grandparent on the date of 1 January 1900.
The declaration of re-acquisition must be made before a civil registrar by 31 December 2018 at the latest. ... More about this theme.

Our Christmas meeting took place on Saturday, December 16th, 2017. 38 members and friends met at the parish church of Eppeldorf for a guided tour by Fernand FRIEDERES.
This meeting then continued until 6 pm at the Camping KENGERT Restaurant (of our partner Linda GEDINK) with Luxemburg and Christmas songs with the Fernand FASTRO orchestra. (Some pictures of our partner Armand GILLEN)

Schéi Chrëschtdeeg an e gudde Rutsch an d'neit Joer
The luxroots team wishs you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year

Our next newsletter will be sent on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018. ▲

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