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Dear Toran,
If you are just starting researching your family history, be sure to keep an open mind about how a surname was spelled.
The U. of St. Thomas has an online index to the 1853-1863 Decennale that can help you get started. There are no NELLIS listed but there are several NELLES records shown. There is also one NELLEN. I have found that in the old handwriting sometimes an "S" at the end of the name looks like it might be an "N". I found the Nelles names by using just the first 3 letters of the surname. Please read the introduction to the search engine.
http://www.stthomas.edu/libraries/special/lux/LuxDec.htm
Also, look at Therese Becker's website for some general information to help you get started with the Lux. records.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~luxwgw/research.htm
Once you get into the records, the following website can help with the names of places in Lux. It is in 3 languages.
http://www.institutgrandducal.lu/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=109&Itemid=219
If you are close to the St. Paul, Minnesota area, the U. of St. Thomas has many of the LDS (Mormon church) microfilms of the Luxembourg records as well as a large collection of books relating to Lux. If you can visit there call first to let them know that you are coming.
Also, the Mormon Church has genealogical guides in several languages. If you are going to pursue the Lux records, I would get French, Latin and German. The German will help you with the Lux records although the language is not German from what I understand but it is similiar enough to use the German language guide. I would also get the guide to the French calendar. Records in the late 1790s (?) and early 1800s use the French calendar. Lots of fun trying to figure out what the date is.
Have you done your primary research in the US first? Census records, death records, etc.? Where have they lived here in the US? Most Luxembourgers are Catholic. Have you checked church records. If you have found them in the census, look at the neighbors to see if they also came from Luxembourg. My relatives were generally listed as having come from Germany on the censuses from 1880 on.
Look at what others have posted to this board. Some participants have their own websites with information on Luxembourg marriages, etc.
Do you know when he arrived in the USA? Do you have their marriage record-both civil and church?
Is Little Chute near Neenah/Menasha Wisconsin?
Georgia
Updated 18 December 2008
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