Kaisten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaisten 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
Kaisten belonged to the parish of Laufenburg until 1804, when it became an independent parish. Ittenthal was part of the parish until 1812, when it fully separated.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaisten:
 * 1837 (images 787-803)
 * 1850: Form A (images 460-488)
 * 1850: Form B (images 489-490)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaisten 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)