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<\/a>We all know how wonderful censuses are when it comes to our American and Canadian research.\u00a0 And Luxembourg censuses don\u2019t disappoint.\u00a0 I know the example looks bland, but here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n
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- They were conducted about every three years<\/em>.\u00a0 Great for tracking the family!<\/li>\n
- A married woman\u2019s maiden<\/em> name is listed.\u00a0 This is HUGE!!!<\/li>\n
- Some censuses recorded exact birth dates<\/em> (as in the example above), while sometimes just the year was recorded; other times the age was given in years and months.<\/li>\n
- For the place of birth a townland<\/em> was recorded.\u00a0 This is a BIG deal!<\/li>\n
- Some censuses recorded religion.\u00a0 More clues, especially for those who emigrated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
And although the censuses are in French or German (or both!) they\u2019re fairly easy to use.\u00a0 Of course, you will need to know the commune (think, \u201ctown\u201d) in order to use the census records.\u00a0 Since they are not indexed, you will have to browse page-by-page in the correct commune.\u00a0 But being that they are online, that makes it so much easier than rushing through film reels at the FHL or FHC\u2014I speak from experience.\u00a0 Last February, I spent a good chunk of time going through the censuses at the FHL.\u00a0 I had three communes and many years I wanted to cover.\u00a0 I rushed through, grabbing what I knew were my family, taking captures of those same surnames that could be family, but there was just too much to cover in a short period of time.\u00a0 Now I can go through, slowly<\/em>, capture all the possibilities (just as I\u2019ve done with the civil registrations) and effectively analyze what I find.\u00a0 I\u2019m so excited!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday I discovered that the censuses for Luxembourg were added to FamilySearch ten days ago.\u00a0 This is VERY exciting for me.\u00a0 Now whether they are all there for each commune from 1843 to 1900 I can\u2019t say, but for the areas I\u2019m interested in, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,25,356,39,300],"tags":[391,381],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-genblog","category-news","category-news-events","category-resources-genblog","tag-location-luxembourg","tag-tools-tech-familysearch","cat-27-id","cat-25-id","cat-356-id","cat-39-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-6A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- A married woman\u2019s maiden<\/em> name is listed.\u00a0 This is HUGE!!!<\/li>\n