Regarding the church in the USA a person confirmed in the Evangelische Kirke in Hesse Darmstadt would most likely join: My husband's grandmother was confirmed in that church in Hesse Darmstadt. When she arrived in Chicago Illinois in the late 1890s she joined a church that later became the Evangelical & Reformed Church which later merged with the Congregational Church to become United Church of Christ. Both my husband and I were confirmed in the E & R Church. Our children were baptized in the same church, except that it was now United Church of Christ. When we were children the main service was in English, but there was an earlier service in German. No German today. I think any immigrant from Germany would have been likely to connect with a church where German was spoken, whether E & R, or Lutheran. Here in Chicago we had many churches that began as foreign language churches. Now many are closing or merging with other churches of the same denomination. Probably due to all the Germans, Danes, Swedes and Norwegians having married outside their ethnicity and now speaking English. If you can find churches in your area that were German speaking, you might find your family. Lois Mack Schill