Not to "muddy the waters," but Jean-Claude Muller is the Director of the National Library, which is not the same as the National Archives of Luxembourg. Perhaps these web sites will be of use to you: http://www.etat.lu/BNL/ National Library site (under construction) http://www.igd-leo.lu/ Institut Grand Duchy web site http://www.etat.lu/AN/ National Archives of Luxemborg web site E-mail address for the Archives d'etat (national Archives): archives.nationales@mc.etat.lu The National Archives are open M-F and Sat. mornings. The web site contains complete information. Best wishes, Suzanne Bunkers --------------------------------------- On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:59:28 -0700 "W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@wasatch.com> wrote: > Go to Luxembourg National Archives. > > They have microfilms of birth, marriage and death indexes of all > communes (civil records). > > Marriage record will show where Mathias Steffen was born. The civil > records of Luxembourg, France and southwest Germany are very excellent > resource of information after all it was Napoleon who imposed Civil > Registration in all territories his armies occupied for long time. > > The President of the National Archives is very "Genealogist". He is > Jean Claude Mueller. > > W. David Samuelsen