This site is intended for people researching their Luxembourg
ancestry.
Comments and suggestions
are welcome!
I have been "officially" researching my family history for
fifteen years, although it has been an ambition of mine since I was a
little girl poring through a suitcase full of old photographs at my
grandmother's house. By day I am a librarian, so I guess you might say I
was born to do research.
My intrepid ancestors emigrated to America in the mid-nineteenth
century (1847-1867) settling in several ethnic Luxembourg villages in
Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. Subsequent generations fanned out to the city
of Chicago and the states of Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, and South Dakota.
My Luxembourg surnames and their points of origin in the "old country" include:
| Surname, Spouse |
Location |
| NEY |
| Ney, Esper |
Contern, Mensdorff |
| Hemmer, Thillen |
Roeser |
| MANS |
| Mans, Welter |
Redange, Niederpallen |
| Plier, Reuter |
Redange, Grosbous |
USELDING |
| Uselding, Has |
Erpeldange, Diekirch |
| Bastendorff, Baustert |
Erpeldange, Diekirch |
| LAUTERS |
| Lauters, Pauls |
Heinerscheid |
| Bourton, Mergen |
Buvange (Belgium) |
I have more ideas for areas of research pertaining to
Luxembourg-American heritage to explore and like most web pages, mine are
permanently "under construction". I have tried to keep the
technology to a minimum on these pages in the hopes that they load
quickly and are easy-to-use. I welcome any suggestions or corrections to these pages and hope to see a greater web presence for Luxembourg-Americans in the future.
The above photograph is one I took on my first trip to Luxembourg. I don't claim any photography skills, but this is an
often-photographed view of Luxembourg City.
About Lisa Oberg and GeneLux