Hermetschwil-Staffeln Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Hermetschwil-Staffeln 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
The parish of Hermetschwil-Staffeln originated in the Abbey, first mentioned in 1083. The parish church is called Bruder Klaus.

Original church records are located onsite at the Hermetschwil Abbey. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1626-1735; burials 1627-1737; confirmations 1647-1731
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Bremgarten city archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1729-1836; confirmations 1731-1829
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1832-1862

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Hermetschwil Abbey.
 * Family book 1846-1920
 * Family book 1850-1873

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Hermetschwil-Staffeln:
 * 1837 (images 727-735)
 * 1850: Form A (images 462-470)
 * 1850: Form B (image 471)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Hermetschwil-Staffeln prior to 1875:

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)