Debra, Do you have thee-mail for the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt. I also have ancestors from Hesse.....Specifically Flonheim & Badenheim and would like to receive some information. Thanks. On Mar 2, 2011, at 9:39 PM, D.L. MacLaughlan-Dumes wrote: > > Has anyone here obtained archival material from the Hessisches > Staatsarchiv Darmstadt and, if so, how did you determine what to > order? > > I got a nice email from a representative to whom I'd written, asking > about an estate file for my 4x great-grandfather Georg Philipp > Schuchmann. Apparently the file runs to 320 pages and deals with > multiple-year guardianship issues from 1817-1827. I may not need > that level of detail. > > The cost for all 320 pages is a bit prohibitive but they're willing > to send me either an inventory ("Vormundschaftsrechnungen") or a > "mass reckoning" (not sure how else to translate "Masserechnung") > for a more affordable rate. > > My goal is to find some reference to the date of my ancestor's > death, his age at death, and perhaps (if I'm lucky) a reference to > his parents' names. Does anyone here have a suggestion for what I > should request? Which of the two options (the inventory or mass > reckoning) is likely to be more helpful? > > Any ideas will be helpful, I'm sure, and I'd be grateful for > clarification. > > Regards, > Debra MacLaughlan-Dumes > http://sakionline.net/familypage > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message J. Eggers Msgene@mac.com
On Mar 3, 2011, at 8:46 AM, J. Eggers wrote: > Debra, > > Do you have thee-mail for the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt. I > also have ancestors from Hesse.....Specifically Flonheim & Badenheim > and would like to receive some information. You'll need to locate a possible file of interest first. Start your search here at HADIS (Hessisches Archiv-Dokumentations- und Informations-System): http://www.hadis.hessen.de/scripts/HADIS.DLL/home?SID=794-467A3E1-B3FF1&PID=E5CF Type in a surname in the "Schnellsuche" box in the lower left-hand corner and select records of interest from the results. You may get results in the District Court database (Amtsgericht), biographical information, emigrant list (Auswanderer-Nachweise), etc. Or there may be nothing. If there are results from your surname search, click the database of interest for further information. A file number is located to the left of the file name. If you see something of interest and want to inquire about it, email the Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv at poststelle@hhstaw.hessen.de and give them the file number and file title. In about a week they'll respond with a quote for copies and postage. I haven't written to them in English, just German, so I don't know how well they do with requests in English. Regards, Debra MacLaughlan-Dumes http://sakionline.net/familypage