Dear subscribers, dear visitors of our websites, dear friends In order to make good use of past documents, you have to transcribe them into a database. This is the basic work of the 60 luxroots volunteers who every day (7/7) transcribe the details of more than 600 birth/baptisms, marriages and deaths certificates of parish and civil registers for the period from ~1600 to 1923 in the common database of the luxroots association. This work provides an interesting, informative and useful hobby for our volunteers, an ideal help for family researchers from Luxembourg and around the world, and an appreciable help to future generations in the deciphering of the details of the handwritten records. luxroots - a project that is progressing well thanks to the online teamwork of our volunteers. Public interest before personal interest is the motto of luxroots. We passed the milestone of 1.8 million records, almost 1.5 million unique birth/baptism certificates entered of which 1.1 million for Luxembourg and 350,000 for the Belgian and German border region. More than 815,000 people are connected to their father and mother so that we can establish pedigree charts and lists of descendants up to 10 generations in seconds for our subscribers. Our volunteers met at the Beckerich Mill on July 17th to exchange news on the project, discuss progress and expansion of the project, and set some rules to follow when entering the records. (Pictures of this meeting by Fernand HERMES) Even if the project is nearing completion for the Luxembourg birth/marriage records, we are still looking for new volunteers to extend the project in the border regions of Germany (Prüm and Bitburg region), Belgium (Lommersweiler, Schönberg, Manderfeld, Büllingen, Samrée, Laroche, Ortho, Bertogne, Longchamps, Sibret, Juseret, Witry, Ebly, Anlier, Mellier, Habay-la-Neuve, Habay-la-Vieille) and in France (Mont-Saint-Martin, Longlaville , Saulnes, Haucourt-Mouaine, Herserange, Hussigny-Godbrange in Meurthe-et-Moselle). An information meeting will be held on this subject at the Centre Nicolas Braun in Hesperange on August 28th, 2018 from 7:30pm. 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. ▲ During a meeting at the Ministry of Culture on April 20th, 2018, between Mrs Josée KIRPS, director of the National Archives, Guy ARENDT, Secretary of State for Culture, and Georges EICHER of luxroots.com asbl, Mrs KIRPS confirmed the posting of the Civil Register records on the website of the National Archives according to the following schedule: - for mid July 2018, the records of the district of Luxembourg, online since July 25th, 2018 - and for December 2018, the records of the district of Diekirch Many thanks to the diocesan archives of Luxembourg, who put online their parish registers on matricula-online.eu 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. September 2nd in Rindschleiden September 8-9th in Vianden September 16th in Reckange (Mersch) Octobre 7-8th in Hesperange ▲ Our volunteers finished the following data input during the current month: 7,973 births 1880-1912 Arlon by Josette TOMPERS 840 births 1891-1912 Autelbas by Josette TOMPERS and Edmée KARIER 7,322 births 1796-1900 Bollendorf by Armand SERRES-HEINEN 3,418 baptisms 1738-1800 Grevenmacher by Lydie EHLERINGER 1,822 baptisms 1716-1805 Mamer by Hortense BOHLER-HAAS 179 marriages 1763-1797 Eischen by Ferd KOEUNE 118 marriages 1704-1744, 1779-1797 Tuntange by Myriam WEIS-ZIEWERS 345 marriages 1803-1839 Bertrange by Mariette BORSCHETTE-BISSEN 819 marriages 1797-1839 Grevenmacher by Lydie EHLERINGER 55 marriages 1800-1823 Leudelange by Fernand HERMES-METZ 260 marriages 1798-1823 Reckange-sur-Mess by Fernand HERMES-METZ 5,578 deaths 1797-1923 Pétange by Josée and Richard OSTER-RASQUIN Which associate is currently working on what ? Our website igenealogy.lu, where you can publish your GEDCOM file for free, now holds 96 trees with 287,000 people after adding and updating the files of Diana KELLY and Liliane JUNG-MEYER. Give us yours and we will publish it for free on this site. NEW: If your Gedcom file (containing 2,000 people or more) has not or will not be published on another website in Luxembourg, we will credit your account with 1,000 myluxroots points. ▲ 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!▲ Sunday, September 30th, 2018 from 9:30am, Marche de la pomme gourmande in Hoffelt Contact other luxroots users in order to work together on a common family name. 4,400 luxroots users have already given their consent. Our next newsletter will be sent on Wednesday, August 29th, 2018. ▲