Herznach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Herznach 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 Herznach was first mentioned in 1180; the parish church is St. Niklaus. It includes the municipality of Ueken. The villages of Oberzeihen and Niederzeihen were part of Herznach until 1852, when the newly-created parish of Zeihen was established.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Herznach parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1606-1683
 * Baptisms 1684-1810
 * Baptisms 1817-1861
 * Baptisms 1862-1875
 * Marriages 1606-1683
 * Marriages 1684-1784
 * Marriages 1785-1839 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1607-1683
 * Burials 1784-1840 (organized by location
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Aarau parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1784-1844 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1684-1794

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Herznach:
 * 1837 (images 755-767)
 * 1850: Form A (images 405-426)
 * 1850: Form B (images 427-430)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Herznach 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)