Thal Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Thal Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.



Church Records
The following church records are available online from the State Archive of Sankt Gallen for Thal:

Evangelical Reformed
Thal and Lutzenberg was united until 1716 with the parish of Rheineck. Records were kept at Rheineck.

Thal

Baptisms and burials (1716-1770) -- '''unavailable online--- Baptisms (1810-1840) Baptisms (1840-1881) and confirmations (1840-1916) Baptisms (1882-1923 ) -- unavailable online

Confirmations (1804-1839)

Non-citizen marriages (1806-1880) Marriages (1831-1858) Marriages (1835-1847) Marriages (1840-1884) and burials (1840-1889) Marriages (1858-1875)

Burials Strazza (1810-1827)

Family book volume 1 (1-520) (1773-1841) Family book volume 2 (521-1040) (1778-1873) Family book volume 3 (1873-1942) -- unavailable online Family book: non-citizen residents (1846-1907) Family book, non-citizen residents (1881-1895 ) Household register with family entries (1814-1875)

Lutzenberg

Baptisms, marriages, and burials (1761-1868) -- unavailable online Baptisms (1810-1846) Baptisms (1869-1875) -- unavailable online

Confirmations (1804-1834), Strazza court notes (1804-1834)

Marriages (1829-1848) Marriages (1840-1875) -- unavailable online

Burials (1810-1834) Baptisms (1870-1877) and burials (1835-1877) Burials (1867-1875) -- unavailable online

Family book, non-citizen residents (1842-1897)

Thal: Geburt-, Tauf- und Totenbuch (1847-1879) Thal: Strazza für das Taufbuch (1841-1856) Thal: Geburts- und Totenliste (1850-1869)

Thal: Totenbuch (1828-1847) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Ehebuch (1808-1834) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf-, Ehe- und Totenbuch (1716-1770) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf-, Ehe- und Totenbuch (1788-1798) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf- und Totenbuch (1804-1809)

Catholic
Baptisms (1587-1643) Baptisms (1639-1829), confirmations (1657-1820), marriages (1639-1826), and burials (1690-1829) Baptisms (1830-1892) and confirmations (1831-1889) Baptisms (1887-1898), marriages (1887-1898), and burials (1887-1898) Baptisms (1893-1972) -- unavailable online

Marriages (1830-1893) Marriages (1893-1972) -- unavailable online

Burials (1830-1892) Burials (1893-1972)

Family book volume 9 and non-citizen residents (1819-1881)

Census Records
(see here for article describing the Zürich census records)

The following censuses are available for Thal:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Thal families:

Lutz family, by Julius Billeter (FHL Film 127,973; see also FHL Film 193,478)

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

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen