Luxembourg Genealogy

Guide to Luxembourg ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

Country Information
Luxembourg is a country in Europe bordered by Belgium, Germany, and France. The official languages are Luxembourgish, German, and French.

Finding Your Ancestors' Town in Luxembourg

 * Genealogical records are organized by geographical locality. Civil registration (government birth, marriage, and death records) and church records (christenings/baptisms, marriages, and burials) were kept at the local level. To search these records, you must know the town where your ancestors lived.
 * If you do not know your ancestors' town, follow the advice in the Wiki article, Luxembourg Finding Town of Origin, to search a variety of records that might provide that information.

Luxembourg Clickable Map
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Luxembourg. Click on a place below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.

Jurisdictions
Genealogy records are kept on the local level in Luxembourg. Click on a place below to go to the corresponding Wiki article listing more information.

Luxembourg has 12 cantons organized into 3 districts.


 * District de Diekirch northern part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
 * Clervaux
 * Diekirch
 * Redange
 * Vianden
 * Wiltz


 * District de Grevenmacher eastern part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
 * Echternach
 * Grevenmacher
 * Remich


 * District de Luxembourg western part of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
 * Capellen
 * Esch-sur-Alzette
 * Luxembourg
 * Mersch