Luxembourg Genealogy

"Emigrants et Rémigrants Luxembourgeois de 1876 à 1900"

This most useful book, published by the "Centre d'Etudes et de Documentation Historique" of the Luxembourg State Archives, contains some 230 pages, and lists names of people and localities who have either emigrated from Luxembourg or have returned to Luxembourg during the period 1876 - 1900. The book is written in the french language, but since it contains primarily a listing of names and locations, the introduction is really the only bit that needs explaining. Here's a translation of said introduction:

For some time now, we have noted a growing interest in researching the emigration of Luxembourg citizens during the second half of the 19th Century. Particularly genealogists and local chroniclers are interested in a closer look at the thousands of compatriots who have left their native lands in search of a new happiness abroad, especially in the United States of America. The total number of Luxembourgers who have emigrated to the New World between 1840 and 1900 is estimated to number 70,000 - some even say 72,000. Since legislation requiring people to register their change of address with the Communal Authorities was only introduced in 1875, research pre-dating that time often proves to be extremely difficult. This book is the fruit of systematic research of the so-called "Population Mouvement Registers" (1841-1900), kept in the State Archives under the reference ANLux C-949. It takes into account all those people who have either declared their intention of emigrating to countries outside Central Europe, or who have registered themselves as return-immigrants from countries outside Europe. It is however only as of 1876 that the local Communal Administrations have started to communicate to the Superior Authority the names, christian names, number of individuals by gender, destination / origin of those who have registered their change of domicile. The total number of those who have registered their emigration to the United States of America in the period 1876 - 1900 is 10,126, while the number of the return-immigrants from that country is 1,140. This chapter lists 6,644 names in total. A second chapter is devoted to the immigrants and return-immigrants from Argentina, the main wave of which was led by the priest Jean-Nicolas Schwebag of Boevange-sur-Attert, on January 23rd, 1889. The registered number of these emigrants runs to 622 units, that of the return-immigrants to 132 units. In a third chapter, we have listed those people whose destination (175 individuals) or provenance (132 individuals) is an African or Asian country The differents listings are in alphabetical order by cantons, communes, and communal sections. An index of names and localities completes the reference änder hatz [Author - State Archives] The book is available by sending 20 international postal reply coupons to the following address: Archives Nationales P.O. Box 6 Plateau du St. Esprit L-2010 Luxembourg Grand Duchy of Luxembourg archives.nationales@mc.etat.lu