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The first half of 2013 will end soon. Thanks to the continuous commitment of our associates, more than 100,000 documents were analyzed during this period and their details have been entered into our database currently indicating the details of approximately 715,000 records.
The quality of our information is a primary goal of our project and therefore, our data is entered only on the basis of copies of records. If you find an inconsistency in our information, please let us know by activating the or one of the Q link(s) located on the form of the concerned person.
Two new associates, having reached th goal of 500 births, have joined our project during this month so that we now have 50 active associates.
Mireille WEBER-ZENNER, Schifflange, with the entry of the births of Schifflange.
Edmee KARIER-SCHWARZ, Hagen, with the births of Steinfort.
For our project expansion to the cantons of Mersch, Capellen, Grevenmacher, Remich, Luxembourg, and Esch-sur-Alzette and in the regions bordering Germany and Belgium, we are looking for associates to operate in the townships/parishes in this region. Join the great (jigsaw)puzzle of Luxembourgish genealogy by analyzing and capturing the details from records of your preferred township/parish in our database. Contact us if you are interested in working with us !
We gladly support the initiative of the Committee of Sports, Youth and Culture of the township Park Hosingen organizing the Moonlight Walking, cultural and historical walk in the Uewerschlënner on Saturday, July 20, 2013 in Hoscheid. See the flyer for more information and to register. Do not miss this great opportunity to learn more about the Schlënner!
During the month of June 2013, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
4,424 births 1796-1894 of the township Koerich by Pol HORNICK
657 baptisms 1660-1799 of the parish Oberpallen by Hortense BOHLER-HAAS
442 births 1821-1861 of the former township Geichlingen(Neuerburg) by Agnès SERRES-HEINEN
766 births 1796-1910 of the former township Mont (Houffalize) by André SCHMITZ
372 marriages 1840-1923 of the township (Colmar)-Berg by Armand SERRES-HEINEN
831 marriages 1840-1923 of the township Lorentzweiler by Georges EICHER
257 births 1796-1823 of the former townships Sommerain and Taverneux (Houffalize) by André SCHMITZ
3,260 births 1840-1881 of the township of Bastogne by Joel SCHMIT
1,508 deaths 1870-1923 of the former township Folschette (Rambrouch) by Ferd KOEUNE.
Which associate is currently working on what ?
With luxroots you'll find in just 2 seconds the 11 children born in 10 differents townships of Jacob BACK (born on March 3rd, 1873 at Wahlhausenerstrasse-Pütscheid and of Catharina BENDELS (born July 18th, 1877 at Schoenfels-Mersch) who married in Mersch on May 29th, 1895. Imagine how much time you would need to invest to find these children in a traditional way! However, we are not sure to have found them all!
Check our statistics TOP-100 as well as our updated inventory. Support the luxroots project with one of the proposed memberships.
myluxroots offers transactions to the subscribers to manage their genealogy. The subscriber can add members of his family born after 1894 (when they are not already in our database), add studies, jobs, functions, addresses, other information, pictures and links to all the records. The subscriber, enriching the database luxroots, earns myluxroots points. These points can be used to build pedigree charts and/or lists of descendants for people in the database already linked by marriage.
If you need further help, don't hesitate to contact us by mail, phone (00352) 2799 4713 or skype: eicherg (Enter 'luxroots' in the information field in order to get a new contact.)
Are you looking for a book on genealogy and/or local history or do you have such a book to sell ? Then go to
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and make an offer to sell or buy this book. Currently, the following books are offered for sale or looked for by our users. With the help of our bookshelf with more than 800 books, you can easily manage your personal library!
With regard to our monthly meetings, we are having a summer break until October. If you have questions, do not hesitate to send them by message!
We wish you a great summer and a wonderful vacation!
p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on August 1st, 2013.
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