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Some of my records have the given names in French-probably because the records were kept in French during the Napoleonic era as well as the records using the awful French Calendar which makes it hard to figure out the dates even if one can read the record. I know there is a conversion calendar for those dates.
Anyway from the U. of St. Thomas website regarding church records and civil records:
Luxembourg Civil/Parish Database
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/lux/LuxParish/LuxParish.htm
Once you have located a locality linked with a given surname in the "Tables Decennales 1853-1863" database, you can check a wide variety of church and civil records for that locality over a period of three centuries (1590-1890) by employing the "Luxembourg Parish/Civil Records" database.
Parish Records (ca1650 to 1800) Parish records are one of the most significant primary sources for Luxembourg vital statistics and are crucial to family history search. The record-types reflect the typical stages of church participation for individuals in a given: locality baptisms, confirmations, conversions, excommunications, marriages, etc. Parish records, which were compiled at different times in Latin, French, or German, may be difficult to decipher because they generally are handwritten and various record-types are interspersed together by date. There was no such thing as a standard approach to parish records keeping in Luxembourg, so some patience is required in working with these documents.
Civil Records (ca 1796 – ca. 1890) During the years of Napoleonic rule in Luxembourg (1795- 1812), a new "Republican" calendar was utilized and a parallel set of state- gathered records was compiled in addition to (sometimes instead of) parish-based records (e.g. births rather than baptisms, deaths instead of burials). In the post-Napoleonic era, the state continued to gather birth, death and marriage records (sometimes in French, sometimes in German).
Civil birth records may include the following: father's name, age, occupation, and residence as well as some information about the mother and other children, with signatures of the parents. Civil marriage records may include the following: the names and ages of the individuals being married, their places of birth, names and residence of parents, names of witnesses, occupations of the principals, and signatures. Civil death records usually contain the name and age of the deceased, names of surviving family members, and the place of residence of the deceased.
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