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Guide to Luxembourg Province ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. Belgium Online Genealogy Records Ask the Community

History
Luxembourg also called Belgian Luxembourg is the southernmost province of Wallonia and of Belgium. The province was separated from the neighboring Luxembourg by the Third Partition of Luxembourg, de jure in 1830–31 by the Conference of London dealing with the consequences of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, de facto in 1839, after William I, King of the Netherlands and Grand-Duke of Luxembourg, agreed to its decisions and thus the province was given to the newly created Kingdom of Belgium.

Church Records

 * Church records are vital records kept by priests and are often called parish registers or church books. They include records of christenings (baptisms), marriages, and deaths (burials).
 * Church records are crucial for research before the civil government started keeping vital records, which began about 1796.
 * Roman Catholicism has been the pre-dominant religion in Belgium.
 * To learn more about church records, see Belgium Church Records.

1. Online Digital Records for Church Records
For most localities, digital copies of church records are included in the civil registration online collection. Church records prior to 1796 were considered to be the country's civil registration:
 * 1580-1920 at FamilySearch —free, index, incomplete.
 * 1580-1920 at FamilySearch —free, browsable images, incomplete.

Reading the Records

 * Records are most commonly written in Dutch, but may also be in German or French. You do not have to be fluent these languages to read your documents! Genealogical records usually contain a limited vocabulary. Use this Dutch Genealogical Word List to translate the important points in the document. If you find that the records are written in German, or French, click on that language link in this sentence.


 * Also, the handwriting can be slightly different, so you will want to watch these lessons, as needed, depending on the pre-dominant language in the region your ancestors lived:




 * German Script Tutorial