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Newsletter November 2013
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Working together on genealogy for the future, that is the motto of the luxroots group
This makes us one of the most successful providers of Luxembourgish genealogical data.
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The quality of our information and the satisfaction of our subscribers and visitors are our priorities.


The long autumn and winter evenings are ideal to start genealogy, this beautiful hobby of searching for ancestors.
With easier access to authentic copies of documents as well as published data of already analyzed documents on websites, the door is wide open for everyone.
Since January, the associates of the luxroots genealogy group have analyzed more than 160,000 records and the database now includes more than 680,000 people, 211,000 of whom are connected to their parents. This allows constructing online pedigree tables and descendant's lists up to 4 generations with a mouse click for more than 210,000 people.

www.igenealogy.lu now holds 66 family genealogies with a total of 145,000 persons and on our website www.roots.lu, the website with details of records of the 17th and 18th centuries, 1,000,000 persons (children, fathers, mothers, husbands, spouses, godfathers and -mothers, ...) are indexed so they can be looked through with our search engines.

As you know it already, all our subscriptions are limited in time and in volume in order to avoid professionals (searching for heirs, holders of other websites or databases, ...) and thus allow our server to respond quickly to requests from family researchers.
If you reach this volume limit, you can now use your myluxroots points in order to decrease the volume counter. (These myluxroots points are offered with the EXTENDED subscriptions, obtained when adding information to our database or by buying further points.

If not yet done, support the luxroots project with one of the proposed memberships in order to search within the most important genealogical datebases of Luxembourg.

Our library To help our subscribers and associates in their work and genealogical research, we began to acquire genealogical documents of Luxembourg and the neighboring region. With this link, you will find a list of these documents. Provided that you have a search to do within one of these documents, please send your request by mail!

If you need further information about genealogy in Luxembourg or on the luxroots projects, please participate at the genealogy course at the 'Club Senior Atertdall' in Colpach given by us on Monday, November, 4th and 11th, at 2pm - please register by phone 27 55 33 70.

The genealogy group luxroots is at your service with an information desk:

30 associates and subscribers participated at our autumn meeting on October 7th at the Clubhouse of the Tennis Howald. Further explanations on genealogy in Luxembourg and on the luxroots project, especially the new transactions, have been given.
Thank you to the catering team and to Armand GILLEN for the pictures of this meeting.

34 associates and friends were on our annual meeting on October 18th. The activity report for the period from October 1st, 2012 to September 30th, 2013 shows that 11 new associates have joined the project , the number of registered visitors rose to 3162, the monthly newsletter is sent to 2,453 registered people.
The number of subscriptions increased despite the fact that 87 annual subscriptions were not renewed. The group participated with an information stand at 10 exhibitions in Belgium, France and Luxembourg, gave an introduction to genealogy, and made a presentation of the luxroots project.
We published a series of articles on genealogy in the the Luxemburger Wort, which was a great success and we have established a vademecum of 12 pages on genealogical research in Luxembourg and the surrounding region.
A lot of new applications have been developed: points system, builder of ancestors tables and lists of descendants, genealogy quiz, dynamic inventory, checklists of our data ...
A positive balance sheet was presented. With a daily average of more than 550 analyzed records, the group has set itself the goal of reaching one million records by the end of the 2014.
A big THANK YOU to all the associates, the people in charge of catering, the officials of the Clubhaus Op der Heed in Hupperdange and to Armand Gillen for the series of photos.

During the month of October 2013, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input:
4,158 births 1797-1894 of the township of Bous by Fernand TREMUTH
3,036 births 1880-1894 of the former township of Eich by Marilyn FĂśRST
3,588 births 1800-1869 of the township of Kayl by Micheline and Fernand HERMES-METZ
4,998 births 1870-1879 of the City of Luxembourg by Paulette GRUN-BESCH
3,197 births 1814-1914 of the former township of Mettendorf by Agnès and Armand SERRES-HEINEN
767 marriages 1840-1923 of the township of Larochette by Armand GILLEN.
Which associate is currently working on what ?

A new associate joined our team this month: Carlo PEIFFER from PĂ©tange with the data input of the births of the township of Garnich.
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 records and entering the details from records of your preferred township/parish in our database. Contact us if you are interested in working with us !

Check our statistics TOP-100 as well as our updated inventory.

Save your genealogy research to igenealogy.lu.
A file with 1,725 persons, remitted by our subscriber Reinhold Karl HOFFMANN from Görlitz, has been added during the month of October.
The database now includes 66 files with 145,000 people.
This website has been created specifically to publish your genealogical search results (as GEDCOM file) free of charge.
Share your searches with the world and attach your GEDCOM file in ANSI format to your message to us !

myluxroots, our application suite has been developed to enable you to add your recent family members born from 1895 to today, to link them to those already entered in our database, and thus obtain a pedigree chart for the people you entered. (Please note that people born until 1923 are often entered in our database on basis of information from the National Archives and that the people born after y (y=actual year-100) are not shown.)
The subscriber can 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
luxbooks.lu, the virtual marketplace for luxemburgensia, Genealogy, Local History,?
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 900 books, you can easily manage your personal library!

Bernhard UWER announces the family book of Seyweiler with 3.350 people which will be published soon, info +

No monthly meeting has been planned. Therefore, if you have questions, do not hesitate to send them by message!

p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Friday, November 29th, 2013.

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