Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends During the month of September, the Luxembourg press published some interesting articles about the luxroots project. This honors the important work of our volunteers in the context of Genealogy for present and future researchers. Here are links to these articles: Journal, RTL Mettesjournal, RTL 5minutes, Quotidien, Paperjam, l'essentiel, Wort.lu/en, Land.lu, RBS We would like to thank the editors for their support of the luxroots project. Thanks also to our colleague Tom WEIDIG for his help on this topic. Many genealogy enthusiasts have registered on luxroots on the basis of these publications. Today, more than 4,000 visitors from around the world are registered on www.luxroots.com. 790 of these visitors support the luxroots projects! If you are not yet among these people, join them now! Our visitors come from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (50%), France (15%), Belgium (12%), United States (12%), Germany (4%), Canada (1%) and from 30 further countries (6%). ▲ Welcome to the Genealogy Days of Luxembourg and the Greater Region organized on the weekend from October 3rd to 4th, 2015 at the Centre Nicolas BRAUN in Hesperange (Saturday, from 4 to 8pm, Sunday, from 10am to 5pm) under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Hesperange in collaboration with genealogy associations from Belgium, France and GermanyA voucher* of 1,000 myluxroots points (value 10 euros) will be sent to all registered luxroots people getting our newsletter regulary. * This voucher allows you, to obtain a free PDF document or a PDF document** under deduction of the mentioned points at our information booth in Hesperange. The concerned documents contain chronologically the details of births/baptisms entered on luxroots for a certain family name. Each person of this list contains a hyperlink to the person in our database. Please check the list of the family names as well as a specimen of such a list with the STEINFORT family name. A Hesperange, we give you a 20% discount on PDF documents** with chronologically births of a township/parish.. Each person of this list contains a hyperlink to the person in our database. Please check the list of documents as well as a specimen with a part of the Doennange baptisms document. The following PDF** are offered with a special discount: Diekirch 1623-1805, book of families by Fons WILTGEN, 764 pages A4 - 20 euros (instead of 24) Ettelbruck 1640-1806k, book of families by Fons WILTGEN, 637 pages A4 - 20 euros (instead of 24) Mersch 1675-1804, book of families by Fons WILTGEN, 768 pages A4 - 20 euros (instead of 24) Septfontaines 1622-1797, book of families by Fons WILTGEN, 214 pages - 10 euros (instead of 14) Census 1766 by the roots.lu group, 1.600 pages A4 - 25 euros (instead of 31,50) (census for more than 900 villages of the deaneries of Bastogne, Mersch, Ouffet and Stavelot with last- and firstnames of almost 120,000 people) An aperitif will be offered by luxroots between 11:30am and 1:30pm. Menu: (Sunday) raw and cooked ham from the region and salads; dessert and coffee – 15€ Reservation until September 28th: info@luxroots.com or by phone 2799 4713** PDF documents are sent to your email address or saved on your USB stick. ▲ Our next meetings with the visitors of our websites Sunday, September 27th, 2015, Kropemannsfest in Redange, from 10am to 7pm Sunday, October 11th, 2015, 5th Day of the local History in Mamer (Kinneksbond) from 10am to 6pm Flyer Saturday, October 17th, 2015, Fête de la philanthropie in Luxembourg (Place d'Armes) from 2 to 6pm. At these meetings, our associates are happy to present you the luxroots.com project and our other websites igenealogy.lu and roots.lu. We present you our myluxroots applications for adding your recent family members in our database by connecting them to the ancestors already entered. This allows you to instantly create pedigree tables and descendant's lists. Wherever possible, our partners help you at these meetings in your own research, or we invite you to contact us via our Helpdesk (luxroots.com/hd) to ask questions. Visit us to learn more about the largest genealogical project of Luxembourg and neighboring areas! We thank you in advance for your presence. ▲ Autumn and winter with their long evenings are ideal to start or restart one's genealogy, this beautiful family leisure in search of one's ancestors. For this reason, we offer our genealogy courses for free in collaboration with the Senior clubs: Genealogy has never been easier than today! Where do I start to find my ancestors? Where can I find information? We present our genealogy project where about 50 people analyzed over a million records and entered their details in an Internet database. How to see this information, how to contribute to this project? Where to find sources, the civil register with births, marriages and deaths, annual and 10-years lists, parish registers, censuses, ... Help to better decipher the ancient writing, how to work with the Republican calendar (1792-1805), ... We show you other Internet sites that can help you in your search to find information on emigration or in the border regions. The following courses (in Luxembourgish) are scheduled: - Monday, October 12th, 2015 at 3:00 pm at the Club Senior Muselheem in Wasserbillig Phone 748787 - Tuesday, November 10th, 2015 at 14.30pm at RBS in Itzig Phone 36047827 - Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 7:00pm at the Clubhaus op der Heed in Hupperdange Phone 998236-1 - Thursday, November 26th, 2015 at 7.15pm at the Centre Nicolas BRAUN in Hesperange Phone 27994713 Please register by phone at least one week in advance. ▲ As our 2014-2015 year will end on September 30th, 2015, we wish to invite all luxroots.club members to the general meeting to be held October 23rd, 2015 at 8pm at the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange. Agenda:Welcome by the President Financial and activity reports Cash auditors' report Discussion of reports and discharge to the Board of Directors Updating the membership fee (proposed up to € 15) Statutory appointments: Renewal Proposal of the Board of Directors for 2015: Outgoing and re-eligible: Georges EICHER and Fons WILTGEN; 2016: Paulette GRUN-BESCH, Armand SERRES, Fernand HERMES. Any new application for the board can be made in accordance with # 13 of the articles (statutes). Designation/Confirmation of Cash auditors Miscellaneous Presentation of the Luxroots.com projects to members and guests Donation to ALAN asbl (luxroots Charity Project) Reception ▲ During the month of September 2015, the luxroots.com associates finished the following data input: 1,225 births 1895-1923 of the township of Bascharage by Armand GILLEN 2,596 births 1797-1912 of the township of Léglise (B) by Joel SCHMIT 810 marriages 1830-1923 of the township of Betzdorf by Monique and Jean-Paul MOURIS-BERNARD 37 marriages 1823-1828 of the former township of Eschdorf by Agnes and Armand SERRES-HEINEN 325 marriages 1797-1839 of the township of Esch-sur-Sûre by Agnes and Armand SERRES-HEINEN 1,059 marriages 1850-1859 of the township of Luxembourg by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS 518 marriages 1840-1870 of the city of Reuland (B) by Irma JODOCY-HENTZ 317 marriages 1840-1880 of the township of Stadtbredimus by Marilyn FÜRST Which associate is currently working on what ? igenealogy.lu now holds 80 trees with 204,000 people. Marianne EHMANN has indexed 257 notary records KNAUS 1794-1796 and the database of notary records now holds 10,347 records ▲ Looking for your ancestors to establish a pedigree chart without having to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars or euros? Then, nothing simpler, register with luxroots.com, take a subscription and login! Our myluxroots transactions, and especially the transaction Add a child of a couple allows you to enter your recent family by connecting to the ancestors already entered by one of our associates! This done, we help you to complete your pedigree chart for ancestors born and married in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg after 1800. In addition, we will reward this collaboration with myluxroots points. On the record of the entered person, you find a button 'Pedigree Chart' which enables you to display this chart. A pedigree chart up to 9 generations can be established for a child born after 1999, until 8 generations for young people born after 1975, until 7 generations for people born after 1949, 6 generations for people born after 1923, otherwise until 4 generations. These people were usually entered by a subscriber using the myluxroots transactions. Check this with our demo videos. Check also the last 30 uploaded pictures added by our subscribers! ▲ luxroots is the genealogical association in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg whose associates 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. 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. ▲ The luxroots genealogy group is your genealogy partner in Luxembourg and offers to help in your researchby the instantaneous release of entered details of records on luxroots.com with the websites and/or databases roots.lu, igenealogy.lu, records of notaries, Luxembourger, soldiers of France 1792-1815 with our contacts for Research with our FAQ page with the page with our Demo-Videos which we expand regularly by our HELPDESK transaction with our information booths at many events - check our calendar at our meetings also announced in our calendar when contacting us by mail by phone +352 2799 4713. ▲p.s. our next newsletter will be sent on Thursday, October 29th, 2015.