Tag Archives: Location: Luxembourg

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 […]

Week 11 Prompt: Large Family This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is “Large Family.”Coming from lines where the recent generations were small families, a “large family” to me is anything over three children! But I digress. When I saw this prompt, I immediately thought of one of my collateral families that I work with quite frequently. Since this is Week 11 of the challenge, the fact that this family consisted of 11 children is fitting.

Week 6 Prompt: Surprise This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is “surprise.” While there have been many surprises in my research (I actually just wrote about one for this series), the biggest and most fascinating surprise was learning that I have Luxembourg roots. I always thought my dad was Irish and English, but as I dug just a few generations back, I learned that my great-grandmother was born to Luxembourg immigrants. Despite the language barrier (German, French, and Latin), and difficult-to-read German script and handwriting, I was also surprised to learn […]

Title: Map Guide to Luxembourg Parish Registers Author: Kevan M. Hansen Format: Paperback Published: 2016 My Rating: The following review first appeared in the Federation of Genealogical Societies FORUM magazine (Winter 2016); reprinted with permission. Kevan Hansen has a spectacular series of books, Map Guide to German Parish Registers, that to date has over 50 volumes covering various places in Germany (both present-day and historical). Earlier this year, Hansen released a similar book specific to Luxembourg, a small country surrounded by Germany, France, and Belgium.

  Title: Luxembourg-America: 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries Edited by: Brain&More Format: Hardcover Published: 2015 My Rating: The following review first appeared in the Federation of Genealogical Societies FORUM magazine (Summer 2016); reprinted with permission. Being a descendant of Luxembourg immigrants, I’m always on the lookout for resources to learn more about the history and culture of this small European country. I can tell from my genealogy research that my immigrant ancestors were very proud of their Luxembourg heritage; I guess they took the motto to heart: “Mir wëlle bleiwe […]

If you’re like me, you anxiously await the weekly email from FamilySearch that lists all the new historical records added to their online collection. When FamilySearch recently announced the discontinuation of lending microfilms to Family History Centers, I caught mention that all films that had been lent in the past few years were now digitized. Now, I know I’ve rented my share of films and I swear I haven’t seen any of those records come through in the weekly email. I even went out and checked the Historical Record Collections—nope, […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

One of my connections to Wisconsin is through my Müller family from Chicago.  After my second great-grandparents, Emil Müller and Hulda Wach divorced, Hulda married John Severing and removed to Harvard, Illinois, which is about five miles from the Wisconsin / Illinois border.  Emil and Hulda’s daughter Ida, married Charles Brunner, and at various times throughout their life, they were either living in the Harvard, Illinois area, or in Sharon, Wisconsin (just north of the border).