Luxembourg Genealogy

• If you can go to Luxembourg, then do look through local parish records. If for one reason or another you are unable to look at them yourselves, the Luxembourg Telephone Directory lists parish priests under "Presbytère" for each parish. The priests often are very helpful, but please note that many prefer to receive letters rather than telephone requests.



• On the web, the following 2 sites seem to be where all the action is: luxracines.lu and roots.lu.
  We understand that these sites [and many a site linked from these two] are run by Luxembourgers with a keen interest in the subject.
  
  
  
• The Usenet newsgroup soc.genealogy.benelux.



•  Fausto Gardini, a Luxembourger living in the Atlanta, Georgia area, maintains an Internet site [Luxembourg on my Mind] to assist descendants of Luxembourg emigrants in their quest for relatives and ancestors.



• A possible source of information in Ohio about Luxembourgers, is John M. Webber (email: jwebber1@Prodigy.com). Most of his collection deals with those Luxembourgers that came to Ohio between 1833 and 1900.



• People doing research with Luxembourg-Wisconsin connections, could contact the "Luxembourg Society of Wisconsin", 197 Meadowbrook, Fredonia, WI 53021. They publish a newsletter every two months.



• The two volumes of the book: "Luxembourgers in the New World" by Jean Ensch, Jean-Claude Müller, and Robert E. Owen could be of interest. It is published in Foetz, Luxembourg, by Kremer Müller & Co. and bears ISBN 2-87953-003-2.



• The newspaper "Luxembourg News of America", 5204 Brown Street, Skokie, Il 60077. Subscription Price $10.00 US and $15 Foreign.



• The "Luxembourg Society of Iowa", Box 2, Saint Donatus, Iowa 52071



• The "Saint Donatus Luxembourg Heritage Society", Box 113, Saint Donatus, Iowa 52071



• The "Center for Dubuque Area History", Wahlert Memorial Library, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa 52001-4399



• The Luxembourg Genealogy - Shelby County Iowa page is full to the brim with extremely useful pointers



• The Institut Grand-Ducal's web site.



• Genealogists and family historians researching ancestors in the Moselle valley area in eastern Luxembourg can now do so with the help of a powerful tool. A series of 3 monographies by authors Prosper and Roger Kayser detail the complete genealogies of all the families in the towns concerned.

  "Familienchronik der Stadt Remich"

  All the inhabitants of Remich 1688-1900

  18316 individuals, 4783 families

  ISBN: 2-919910-03-5

  "Familienchronik der Gemeinde Wellenstein"

  All the inhabitants of Wellenstein, Bech-Kleinmacher and Schwebsingen/Schwebsange 1688-1999

  17300 individuals, 4580 families

  ISBN: 2-919910-04-3

  "Familienchronik der Gemeinden Remerschen und Bürmeringen"

  All the inhabitants of Remerschen, Schengen, Wintringen/Wintrange (1668-1900), Buermeringen/Burmerange, Elvingen/Elvange and Emeringen/Emerange (1800-1900)

  18000 individuals, 4500 families

  ISBN: 2-919910-05-1

  The above books have been published by the Institut Grand-Ducal, Section de linguistique, d'ethnologie et d'onomastique, in Luxembourg. More information at their website www.igd-leo.lu under publications. [contributor: Jean Ensch]



• The Benelux Genealogy Ring
  
  
• Claude ALFF maintains a useful list of further Luxembourg Genealogy pointers at: www.Geocities.com/Yosemite/Forest/5854
  
  
• A discussion group for genealogical research in Luxembourg has been founded.
  People can subscribe at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GDLuxembourg
  
  
• The University of St Thomas offers a guide to starting genealogy research on Luxembourg.
  
  
• StudyAncestors provides free expert Genealogy advice. Use our step-by-step guide to get your Family Tree started and learn what genealogical sources are available and how they can be acquired.
  
  
  

"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