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  1. Apr 12, 2024 · Guide to Hesse (Hessen), German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy before 1945: birth records, marriage records, death records, both church and civil registration, compiled family history, and finding aids.

  2. Dec 26, 2013 · The Electorate of Hesse (also known as Hesse-Kassel [and Kurhessen]) was a state elevated by Napoleon in 1803 from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel. When the Holy Roman Empire was abolished in 1806, the Prince-elector chose to remain an Elector, even without an Emperor to be elected.

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  4. Jan 19, 2021 · This Research Wiki, the FamilySearch Catalog, and FamilySearch Historical Records are organized by the localities and place names as of 1871. In 1871, the area of the modern state of Hesse belonged to: Hesse (Hessen), German Empire Genealogy. Hesse-Nassau (Hessen-Nassau), German Empire Genealogy. Waldeck and Pyrmont, German Empire Genealogy.

  5. Introduction. The Map Guide to German Parish Registers series has one volume on the Grandduchy of Hessen (Vol. 1), with a list of available town lineage books shown on pages 16-17. Separately, two more volumes (9 & 10) are devoted to the Prussian Province of Hessen-Nassau, split between the Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden and the Regierungsbezirk ...

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  6. Hesse's city of Frankfurt-am-Main was for a long time a free imperial city, serving as the location in which German emperors were crowned. Following Philip's death in 1567, Hesse was divided into the regions of Hessen-Kassel, Hessen-Marburg, Hessen-Rheinfels and Hessen-Darmstadt, one each for Philip's four sons.

  7. The House of Hesse-Kassel. Gartered coat of arms of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel. The origins of the House of Hesse begin with the marriage of Sophie of Thuringia—daughter of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Elizabeth of Hungary, of the Miracle of the Roses—with Henry II, Duke of Brabant, from the House of Reginar.

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