I am doing my family history and have relatives from Hesse Darmstadt.?

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I am doing my family history and have relatives from Hesse Darmstadt.?

Could you please tell me a little about this area of Germany and what it is well known for? i.e. What sort of work would have been done there about 100 years ago. What is the main religion of the people there? anything else that might be helpful. Thanks

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I dont know whether these sites will help you any, you may find what your looking for amongst them.
http://www.genealogy.com/users/a/k/a/jan...
http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/city/hist.htm...
http://members.cox.net/hessen/table.htm...
I thought the second one looked quite helpful. http://feefhs.org/
One excellent offering from this site is the map collection. For specifics, you need to zoom in on a certain town/village. The politics of the area (boundary changes) are a real challenge to work with. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hesse_darms...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hesse... I have friends from Darmstadt near Frankfurt in Germany, if it's the same one, I'll see what info I can get for you. Nic