Oberentfelden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberentfelden, 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 Oberentfelden has existed since the Reformation in 1528. Untermuhen belonged to the parish of Oberentfelden between 1683-1948.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Aargau State Archives. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1601-1666 (with gaps); marriages 1601-1657
 * Baptisms 1666-1710; marriages 1683-1751; burials 1683, 1722-1727
 * Baptisms 1711-1751; confirmations 1723-1751
 * Baptisms 1752-1787
 * Baptisms 1788-1814
 * Marriages 1752-1815
 * Burials 1728-1782
 * Burials 1783-1814

The following church records are only available onsite at the Oberentfelden municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1818-1849
 * Baptisms 1850-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1857
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1848
 * Burials 1815-1816
 * Burials 1817-1866
 * Burials 1867-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following records, are found onsite at the Oberentfelden parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1814-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1826-1859
 * Marriages 1815-1853
 * Marriages 1848-1887
 * Family book, Oberentfelden 1895 No. 1-400
 * Family book, Oberentfelden 1895 No. 401-493
 * Family book, Untermuhen 1895

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oberentfelden:
 * 1837 (images 141-166)
 * 1850: Form A (images 397-429)
 * 1850: Form B (images 430-432)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oberentfelden 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)