Perhaps you have
noticed that I have been doing very little blogging lately. That does
not mean that I have been neglecting genealogy. Well, perhaps I did
neglect it a little (only a little) during the summer, but that is
the time for less sedentary pursuits. But with the close of summer I
have again been busily digging through records and revisiting
sources. My lunch breaks are again devoted to poring over faded
scrawls courtesy of FamilySearch, and only this week I had occasion
to exclaim to every passing coworker “I just learned the names of
two sets of my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents!”
counting the greats on my fingers.
The aforesaid 6great-grandparents were found on the 2 Feb 1779 marriage record of, naturally, my 5great-grandparents. They are, in fact, the grandparents of Heinrich Mertz, whose own marriage record to Catharina Odrimong revealed so much information in my post “Luxembourg Records: A Little Practical Advice.” Their names, incidentally, are Nicolai Mertens and Theresia Hoffman of Keispelt, and Michael Trausch and Margaretha Niles of Dondelange. And on Halloween day I located the death record of Michael Trausch. It seems somehow appropriate to find a death record on Halloween.
These records will eventually be transcribed and translated in my Luxembourgish record project; for now this simple announcement of the discovery will suffice.
The aforesaid 6great-grandparents were found on the 2 Feb 1779 marriage record of, naturally, my 5great-grandparents. They are, in fact, the grandparents of Heinrich Mertz, whose own marriage record to Catharina Odrimong revealed so much information in my post “Luxembourg Records: A Little Practical Advice.” Their names, incidentally, are Nicolai Mertens and Theresia Hoffman of Keispelt, and Michael Trausch and Margaretha Niles of Dondelange. And on Halloween day I located the death record of Michael Trausch. It seems somehow appropriate to find a death record on Halloween.
These records will eventually be transcribed and translated in my Luxembourgish record project; for now this simple announcement of the discovery will suffice.
Sources:
Parochia
de Kehlen (Kehlen, Luxembourg), Luxembourg registres paroissiaux,
1601-1948, “Sépultures 1760-1797,” Michael Trausch's death
record; digital image #111 of 129, Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch
(www.familysearch.org
: accessed 31 Oct 2015).
Parochia
de Kehlen (Kehlen, Luxembourg), Luxembourg registres paroissiaux,
1601-1948, “Tables des mariages, mariages 1756-1793,” marriage
record of Theodorus Mertens and Susanna Trausch; digital image #27 of 88, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch
(www.familysearch.org
: accessed 28 Oct 2015).
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