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Dear Chuck,
The LDS has language guides for genealogy. I used the German, French and Latin for the Lux. records. Also, you may want to get the French Calendar guide for the time period that Napoleon ruled and had a different calendar.
Also, you might want to look at the following websites.
http://www.igd-leo.lu/igd-leo/onomastics/villages/villages.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~luxwgw/research.htm
http://members.aol.com/VailCorp/lux.html
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/bachdunn.htm
http://www.und.edu/dept/library/Departments/abc/german.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/GermanScriptPrimer.htm
http://www.altvordern.de/ehome/eschr01/eschr01.htm
If you live anywhere near St. Paul Minnesota, you might want to try the U. of St. Thomas there. They have a large collection of Lux. genealogy "stuff" including the LDS microfilms. Call first.
Did you notice that at the end of the yearly birth or death records, there was an index. I don't know how much time I spent looking through one year's worth of records before I discovered the index.
Once I could identify the records, I found someone who did old German record translations and he was able to pretty much translate most of the records. Several of my marriage records have additional information that has proved helpful as well as quite interesting. One marriage record said that the groom was the older son of the late Nicholas BAch, resident of Hemstal, who died on 22 of last year at Rippig where he lived for 9 years after 1830. He left behind his wife Marie Leonardy of such and such a place. Another one said that the bride was the daughter of the upright Peter Beckeus, age 69, farmer and his wife, etc. etc.
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