Zürich Canton, Switzerland Genealogy

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Guide to Zürich, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Getting started with Switzerland - Zürich research
Zürich is a German speaking canton. It joined the Swiss Confederation in 1351 and has 171 communities.

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 * The Zürich State Archive has a canton-wide marriage index, for every parish, through 1800, and are in the process of putting these indexes online. The index is currently online for every parish through 1700.  Click here to access the search feature.  Type in the desired name and click on search.  When the list of results appear, click on "Time Period" to organize the results chronologically.  When the entry is found, click on the name to identify the parish of marriage.  The index has standardized all names to aid in searching.

Swiss Genealogy on the Internet - Zürich

Zürich Government Archive

Inhabitants of the Wil Parish, Zürich, Switzerland 1640 - 1900

Parishes in Zürich
The following is a list of the church parishes of Canton Zürich as they existed by 1875.