Tag Archives: Family: Sinnen

Week 25 Prompt: Earliest This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is”Earliest.” I decided to look for the earliest record I have on my Luxembourg side of the family. So far, the earliest record is a 1757 marriage for my sixth great-grandparents, Nicolaus Sinnen and Anna Lentz. They were married on 7 November 1757 in Hemstal, Bech, Echternach, Luxembourg. Source: Eglise Catholique [Catholic Church] (Hemstal, Bech, Echternach, Luxembourg), Parish Register (Baptêmes [Baptisms] 1700-1703, 1710-1797, Confirmations 1756-1774, Mariages [Marriages] 1710-1794, Sépultures [Burials] 1710-1782), p. 190, Sinnen-Lentz; digital images, “Luxembourg Church Records, 1601-1948,” FamilySearch […]

François KREMER (variant KRAMER or KREAMER) is my fourth great-grandfather. He and his wife, Catharina MÜLLER, had several children. So far, I have discovered that two of their children emigrated from Luxembourg to the United States, as did a granddaughter, who is my second great-grandmother.

I haven’t done a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge in awhile, but I love a good game of roulette.  This week, Randy Seaver has set the following challenge, Ancestor Name Roulette.

A few months back, I posted about finding the birth record for Margarethe Kremer, my second great-grandmother.  The record was found in FamilySearch’s Luxembourg Civil Registrations record collection.  Periodically, over the last few months, I’ve  continued to review more of these records, working mainly on the line of Margarethe’s husband Johann Schwatrz.  Research was going well, even though I can’t read German (or even French, which started to appear the further back I went).  I can get the gist of the records since they follow a pre-printed register, and therefore, […]