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Dear Mary,
The U. of St. Thomas has an online index to the 1853-1863 Decennale that can help you get started. There are quite few hits for Linden. Please read the introduction to the search engine.
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/lux/LuxDec.htm
Also, look at Therese Becker's website for some general information to help you get started with the Lux. records.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~luxwgw/research.htm
Once you get into the records, the following website can help with the names of places in Lux. It is in 3 languages.
http://www.igd-leo.lu/igd-leo/onomastics/villages/villages.html
If you are close to the St. Paul, Minnesota area, the U. of St. Thomas has all the LDS (Mormon church) midrofilms of the Luxembourg records as well as a large collection of books relating to Lux. If you can visit there, call first to let them know that you are coming.
Also, the Mormon church has genealogical guides in several languages. If you are going to pursue the Lux records, I would get French, Latin and German. The German will help you with the Lux records although the language is not German from what I understand but it is similiar enough to use the German language guide. I would also get the guide to the French calendar. Records in the late 1790s (?) and early 1800s use the French calendar. Lots of fun trying to figure out what the date is.
If this is the first time that you have posted to this board, you might want to go back over previous postings. There are some very interesting links and also general information that can help you in your search.
Once you find out where they lived, you might want to view the villages as they are now.
http://www.luxalbum.com/
Have you looked at all the civil and church records for him in the USA? If not, start there first. If he had siblings in the area, find their records. Check county histories for the area that he lived in. Many of them have biographies.
Georgia
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