Widen, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Widen, 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
Widen belonged to the parish of Eggenwil until 1977. See Eggenwil for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Widen:
 * 1837 (images 70-75)
 * 1850: Form A (images 695-704)
 * 1850: Form B (image 705)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)