By Kevin Wester One of the best ways to reverence your Luxembourg ancestor is to give their gravestone some tender loving care. The gravestone might just need thorough cleaning. In that case, view Kevin’s video on cleaning your ancestral...
The Luxembourg Brotherhood of America website has a free digital library with archives of LBA anniversary booklets, Schobermesse program booklets and Luxembourg News of America newsletters. The Luxembourg Brotherhood of America (LBA), founded in 1887 in Chicago, is...
New Book Explores Origins of Luxembourgish Family Names Noted historian and immigration researcher Jean-Claude Muller has released a new book entitled “Les noms de famille Luxembourgeois" (The Names of Luxembourgish Families). The nearly 1,200-page book delves into...
Add visual history to your family gravestones It is said that a picture paints a thousand words. This is true even on gravestones. Kevin Wester, of Luxembourg Legacy, recently added three photographic images to his parents Bert...
Luxembourg or Luxemburg? People new to researching their Luxembourgish genealogy are often confused by the spelling of Luxembourg. There’s Luxembourg, Luxemburg and Lëtzebuerg. Which is correct? Actually, they all are. Luxemburg is the German spelling of...
Discoveries, Connections and a Lifetime of Memories Monica (May) Smith, pictured next to her ancestral village sign, experienced Family Day on the Luxembourg Legacy Tour in May. By Mary Bolich One of the highlights for many on the Luxembourg Legacy tours is Family...
Luxembourg Villages, Towns Have Three Names Because Luxembourg is a multilingual country, its villages and towns are named in Luxembourgish, French and German, which can make genealogy especially confusing. When I started doing Luxembourg genealogy about 45...
Kevin Wester with his brother Joe and their Wester/Even cousins in front of the Wester ancestral barn in Bouferterhaff, Luxembourg. People frequently contact Kevin and Rebecca before traveling to Luxembourg inquiring about visiting ancestral villages churches,...
Keep in touch with Luxembourg News of America The oldest Luxembourg society still in existence today is the Luxembourg Brotherhood of America (LBA). Founded in Chicago in 1887, the LBA was organized in sections in various parts of the United States with the...
Historical map of Luxembourg, by J. Hansen, cartographer. Am I a Luxembourger?"My ancestor was born in such-and-such town, but I googled it and it's in the country of Belgium. I always thought we were Luxembourgers, but are we actually...