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Post by moike92 on May 4, 2015 13:56:10 GMT -5
Pierre Nicolas and Jean are what came up as my ancestors names as well.
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Post by William on May 4, 2015 21:28:20 GMT -5
Some common names in Luxembourg now, it appears, are: Girls - Emma, Lara, Zoé, Amy, Sarah, Charlotte and Emily. Boys - Gabriel, Leo, Luca, Noah, David, Tom and Ben. Link: www.wort.lu/en/panorama/emma-lara-gabriel-and-leo-luxembourg-s-most-popular-baby-names-54a3d4770c88b46a8ce4e047 |
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Post by seblux on May 5, 2015 6:33:09 GMT -5
Yep...This is the result of globalization of first names unfortunately! But you will notice that these (new) names are quite common in France today as well!
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Post by Wisconsin on May 7, 2015 9:39:16 GMT -5
Yep...This is the result of globalization of first names unfortunately! But you will notice that these (new) names are quite common in France today as well! Yes, I agree. I see that names like: Noah, Liam and Zoe are at the top of the list in both North America and across Europe. That's kind of interesting, as you pointed out, even kid's names are now becoming globalized. Are the following male names, if one were to immigrate to Luxembourg, and Europe in general, suitable these days? Sebastian Felix Jean Pierre Daniel Jacob William Alexander Ethan Michel |
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Post by seblux on May 7, 2015 10:32:58 GMT -5
Suitable? All names are suitable if you like them! Well maybe "Adolf" is not so fashionable around here  |
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Post by moike92 on May 7, 2015 19:04:08 GMT -5
I'll switch to Adolf just to stand out.  |
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Post by helena on Jun 21, 2015 23:17:46 GMT -5
I know this is an older thread, but I wondered if you thought about the potential problems of having differing names on your passports, or are you planning on changing your name in your other country, too?
This can be somewhat problematic for women who have to use their maiden names on their passports, but that is tradition in some countries and seems like it would be easier to explain than a man changing his name in just one country.
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Post by junglinster on Jun 22, 2015 21:54:22 GMT -5
When researching my ancestors from Luxembourg, I noticed on the birth certificates that on the left side, the French equivalent of the German name was almost always listed (for example, Jean for Johan and Guillaume for Wilhelm), but in the body of the birth certificate, the given name was listed, which almost always was the German form of the name. So although the French version was listed, the family used the German form of the name (and carried the German form over to the United States). So if you are finding Jean or Pierre, you should look carefully at the whole birth certificate to confirm that the French version was the actual name given the infant.
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Post by moike92 on Jun 23, 2015 16:21:51 GMT -5
I had that come up as well but it did not cause any problems such as delaying them from finding what I needed. I emailed the commune in Dudelange asking for records of my great grandfather (Pierre) and they responded back within 30 minutes having already found the documents I needed. When I received the documents they actually said (Peter).
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Post by moike92 on Sept 15, 2015 15:44:56 GMT -5
I like the idea, but wouldn't this make some complications with travel and using both passports? Say you are a U.S. citizen and a Lux citizen as well. So legally you can reside in both as long as you want. You go to Lux for say 7 months while you are there you use your Lux passport, you come back to the U.S. and you use your american passport. So in order to check everything they will need to view both passports. Then they notice the difference in names. I feel like this might raise some suspicion or something.
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Post by Ada on Sept 16, 2015 17:33:36 GMT -5
Moike,
When you go through customs in europe, you give your european passport, when it's in the us, you give your us passport, they will not check the other one. Just be careful, if you don't have exactly the same name, and your trip involves the us, put your us name for your ticket details.
I have both a us and a european passport, and they don't exactly match (because of the us ;-) ) and that's exactly how i do it, never a problem.
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Post by moike92 on Sept 17, 2015 9:01:09 GMT -5
But what I mean is that if you use both of your passports say you leave America and you use your American passport when you leave. Then when you get to Europe you use your EU passport upon arrival. And the same when you leave. When you get back to the US the stamps in the passports won't add up right because your US passport would only have a stamp for leaving the US and then another for Returning to the US. So you'd be missing stamps. Which would raise suspicion then they would have to check the other passport. Which could make you run into a problem if having different names.
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Post by Ryan on Sept 18, 2015 16:30:56 GMT -5
Moike92,
What you're saying makes sense in theory. But I think most immigration officials in most don't really seem to care...the one place where I did run into trouble with my passport stamps not adding up between the passport I presented to immigration and the one I used to leave the country I was staying in was crossing the border between Jordan and Israel. The Israeli immigration was perplexed as to how I got into Jordan in the first place, then even more suspicious as to my potential security risk once they realized I held a passport from Luxembourg-a country they had never even heard of!
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Post by Stamps and customs on Sept 22, 2015 17:36:56 GMT -5
But what I mean is that if you use both of your passports say you leave America and you use your American passport when you leave. Then when you get to Europe you use your EU passport upon arrival. And the same when you leave. When you get back to the US the stamps in the passports won't add up right because your US passport would only have a stamp for leaving the US and then another for Returning to the US. So you'd be missing stamps. Which would raise suspicion then they would have to check the other passport. Which could make you run into a problem if having different names. Actually, that's what I do, and it's never been a problem for me. I know a lot of people, who do the same, and I've never heard of any problem either. Now, just to be precise, when you leave the US, your passport, either American or European, is never stamped. Only in Europe (at least Schengen, I don't know for the UK, Ireland and Denmark), it's stamped twice: when you come in and when you exit. In the US, it's stamped only when you enter, never when you exit. I can see a customs agent looking deeply into your passport and your stamps just in the case he's suspicious of you. Apart from that, he wants to make it quick. |
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Post by moike92 on Oct 30, 2015 8:29:22 GMT -5
I was looking at the form to change your name and to me it looked like you were only able to change your first and last name to the French or German equivalent of that name. Is this correct or did I just mis resd the form?
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