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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8328870, member: 118780&quot;]Those are wonderful connections to Paris. Although my mother&#039;s family is from Luxembourg, the main to France I&#039;ve found is my great-grandfather worked there for a period. I still have his log book/passport that lists exactly where he worked, what he did, and contains a recommendation from each employer. I should look again to see where he worked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, when I traced my family down to the 1500&#039;s through church records, my family remained primarily in Luxembourg. I would have thought given the porous borders that there would have been some mix, but I needed to go down to the 1700&#039;s to find a single example from Germany. This is remarkable considering that half of them came from Echternach, which is literally on the border with Germany. Evidently they felt those on their side of the river were cuter... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do have family in France, but I have yet to look them up. My great-grandfather had a sister who moved there I believe after WWI. They corresponded and I have a letter from her to him, but even though I speak German I can&#039;t read the old script. I bought and read a book on it, but I can still only read the church records since they mostly wrote neatly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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