Veltheim Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Veltheim 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
The parish of Veltheim was first mentioned in the 11th century. It became Reformed in the 1520s. It includes the municipality of Oberflachs.

Original church records are located onsite at the Veltheim municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1582-1600; marriages 1582-1600; burials 1598-1600
 * Baptisms 1629-1680; marriages 1647-1680; burials 1646-1880
 * Baptisms, marriages 1681-1721; burials 1686-1720; confirmations 1694-1696, 1702-1720
 * Baptisms, marriages 1721-17991
 * Baptisms 1791-1816; baptisms non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Baptisms 1817-1872
 * Baptisms 1873-1875
 * Marriages 1791-1816; banns 1816-1853
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1873
 * Burials 1721-1799; confirmations 1725-1804
 * Burials 1800-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Veltheim parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Veltheim:
 * 1837 (images 375-387)
 * 1850: Form A (images 437-452)
 * 1850: Form B (image 453)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Veltheim 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)