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The event of September will be the National Day of Genealogy and local History, on Sunday, September 11th from 10am to 6pm at the Cultural Center in Leudelange. You find details of this event with this link . You're all welcome ! The luxroots.lu group will also be present:

in St-Vith (B), October 23rd, from 2 to 6pm at the 1st Day of Genealogy
in Lun�ville (F), the weekend of October, 29th and 30th at the international Genealogy Days 40 years UCGL
in Kehlen (L), Novembre 6th at the Day of local History
in Walferdange (L), the weekend of November 19th and 20th, at the Walfer Biicherdeeg

We also planned a vist to the National Archives on October 15th, Saturday morning from 9 to 11:30am. Please register !
The Luxembourg University organizes a meeting about family names between Meuse and Rhine on the Campus of Walferdange on Septembre 21th and 22th .

You find more events in our calendar . Member of a genealogical association or not - you're all welcome to our events !

The team of the National Archives started their courses in paleography with old German of the 19th century. Beginners can register for the next course starting in October (Oct 13, 20, 27 and Nov 3). For more details, click here .

Check our Flashback to see some pictures of our barbecue and other information about previous events. Follow our latest news also on myWort.

Contact other luxroots users in order to work together on a common family name. More than 750 luxroots users have already given their consent.

The team working on genealogy for the future is the topic of the luxroots.lu group
During the past month, we finished the following data input:
586 baptisms 1661-1808 of the parish of Niederwampach by Ramona LINCK-GAMBUCCI
2,238 marriages 1830-1923 of the city of Wiltz by Marguy SCHAACK-RASQUIN.
609 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Goesdorf by Armand SERRES-HEINEN.
4,219 births 1797-1923 of the township of Bettborn by Georges EICHER.

We need more associates to help us with the data input of records for the following Townships and parishes as well as of the cantons of Capellen, Grevenmacher, and Remich which we want to add to our project. Contact us if you are interested in working with us ! Which associate is working on what today ?

luxroots allows you to publish your genealogical searches free on the new website igenealogy.lu.
During the month of August, the following genealogies have been added:
- Martin HUMMER *~1690 in Niederkorn (L) by Jean Claude HUMMER, L'ISLE JOURDAIN (4.960 persons)
- Joseph HANSEN *`1692 in Obersgegen (D) by Raymond HANSEN, Woluw�-Saint-Lambert (1.518 personnes)
- Stephan POTHEN *~1600 in Udenbreth (D) by Barbara POTHEN and Christel JOST (2.714 persons)
- Nicolas TOUSSAINT * 1713 Luxbg-St.Nicolas (L) and Guillaume FRANCK * ~1700 Schifflange by Marie Jeanne LIBERT
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The Forum for genealogy and local history in Luxembourg www.g�n�alogie.lu is a website with questions and answers, with information on the genealogy search in Luxembourg, searches by descendants of emigrants from Luxembourg, and the answers to these questions from the visitors. Nearly 750 questions are waiting for their answer! To ask or answer a question, you have to register (free)!

Maintaining the highest quality of information, is one of the primary goals of our project. We therefore only enter data based on copies of authentic acts. Read our article about this topic and help us to further improve the quality of our data ! Thanks to all the people who already helped to improve its quality !

Check our statistics TOP-100 as well as our updated inventory .
Approximately 270 users are supporting our project with one of the proposed memberships . If you are not yet among these people, join them now!

The Family History of the township of Niederanven by Jos WAGNER is out of press and can be ordered by crediting ? 25,00 (shipment in Luxembourg included) to the account LU21 1111 0069 6275 0000 with CCPL LULL of the township of Niederanven mentioning ?Familienbuch? and the exact shipment address.

Information about another book (in German) about Jacob CLESEN (1708-1782) born in Binsfeld is available in this article .

The number 2/2011 of the De Cli�rrwer Kanton has just been published with the continuation of the postal cards of the canton Clervaux-region of Hosingen, an article about the origin of the village names by Paul STAAR and other interesting contributions. Join this association , in order to get this beautiful magazine delivered regularly.

Our associate Henri LEYDER sent us a document about the the villages names on the luxemburgish borders with on one side, the luxemburgish names and on the other side, the french or german names.

With the approval of Dr Cristian KOLLMANN of the Luxembourg University, we publish a link his article Where is Engeldingen ?, a study which takes us to Hagondange (F) from where the ENGELDINGER families are coming from.

The last LACS-Newsletters 1 and 2 sent to us by Raymond BRIES from California.

Some useful links:
- Libra Memoria , sent to us by Fraenz MEISCH)
- inmemoriam.be
- GeneaBank
- Bigenet
and 3 sites which have nothing to do with genealogy
- virtual visit of the cathedral of SPEYER (D)
- a book reader (in german)
- Oshkosh 2011 AIRSHOW (from Raymond BRIES)

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Georges EICHER,
with the help of V�ronique EICHER

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