Luxembourg Civil Registration

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Luxembourg

Civil Registration

How to Find the Records

Online Collections

• 1662-1840: Luxembourg Births & Baptisms at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($); Also at MyHeritage ($)
• 1700-1810: Luxembourg Marriages at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($); Also at MyHeritage ($)
• 1702-1798: Luxembourg Deaths & Burials at FamilySearch; index only; Also at Ancestry ($)
• 1796-1941 : Luxembourg, Civil Registration, 1796-1941 at FamilySearch, FamilySearch, free, index and images, also at Ancestry ($), browsable images
• 1796-1923: Luxembourg, Civil Registration, at National Archives of Luxembourg, free, browsable images

Offices to Contact

National Archives of Luxembourg (Archives de Nationales Luxembourg), Genealogy
Tray of the Holy Spirit
L-1475 Luxembourg
Luxemburg

Postal address
B.P. 6
L-2010 Luxembourg
Luxemburg

Telephone: (+352) 247 8 66 60
Fax: (+352) 47 46 92
Email: archives.nationales@an.etat.lu

Civil registration offices of the commune (municipality) where the birth, marriage, or death took place keep one copy of the record. This is important for records more recent than 1941.

Monsieur l'officier de l'état-civil
Mairie de (Town)
(Postal code) (Town)
Luxembourg

Requests should be written in French. You can successfully write in French using this French Letter Writing Guide.

Additional Possible Locations of Certificates

Hôtel de Ville – Ville de Luxembourg (Municipal administration of the city of Luxembourg)
État-Civil
42 Place Guillaume
L-2090 Luxembourg

Tel.: (011) (352) 47 96-1

Bierger-Center
26a, bd Royal L-2449
Luxembourg
L-2090 Luxembourg

Telephone: +(352) 4796 2200
Fax: +(352) 26 2709 99
E-mail: bierger-center@vdl.lu

Historical Background

1797-present. Official civil registration was introduced in the Grand Duchy by a French decree in 1797. At that time the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was a part of France under the name of "Departement des Forêts."

Documents are written twice in the original. One copy remains in the commune (municipality); there are 126 commune (municipality) offices in Luxembourg. The second is sent to the appropriate tribunal in Luxembourg City or in Diekirch. The indexes are preserved in the National Archives of Luxembourg or the Public Records Office of Luxembourg and run from 1797 to 1952 inclusive.

Coverage and Compliance

Every 10 years tables décennales (decennial tables) are made, in which births, marriages, and deaths are arranged in alphabetical order by date.

Information Recorded in the Records

Birth records

• Name of child
• Date of birth
• Names and ages of parents
  

Marriage records

• Date and place of marriage
• Birth dates or ages and birthplaces of bride and groom
• Names of parents
  

Death records

• Place of death
• Date of death
• Age
• Birthplace
• Parents' names