Aarau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Aarau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Church Records
Originally part of Suhr, Aarau became Reformed in the 1530s. Aarau was established as an independent parish in 1568.

The following church records are available in the Aarau city archive:
 * Baptisms 1534-1544
 * Baptisms, marriages 1544-1553; burials 1549-1553
 * Baptisms 1555-1592
 * Baptisms 1592-1646; marriages 1614-1646
 * Baptisms 1598-1621
 * Baptisms 1626-1681; marriages 1629-1683
 * Baptisms 1646-1721; marriages 1647-1713; burials 1673-1715; confirmations 1668-1720
 * Baptisms 1682-1749; marriages 1684-1750; burials 1682-1749; confirmations 1682-1750
 * Baptisms 1721-1734, 1750-1786; marriages, burials 1721-1734
 * Baptisms 1750-1800
 * Baptisms 1787-1807
 * Baptisms 1808-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1812-1875
 * Marriages 1750-1827
 * Burials 1750-1810
 * Burials 1811-1816

The following church records are available in the Aarau civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1801-1824
 * Baptisms 1817-1838
 * Baptisms 1839-1858
 * Baptisms 1859-1874
 * Baptisms 1874-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1849
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Marriage announcements 1828-1852; divorces 1829-1875
 * Marriages 1850-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1853
 * Burials 1854-1871
 * Burials 1872-1875

All church records after 1875 are available at the Aarau parish church office.

Census
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Aarau:
 * 1837 (images 5-86)
 * 1850: Form A (images 6-116)
 * 1850: Form B (images 117-126)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Aarau prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Bern (GHGB)