Buchs Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Buchs 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 Buchs:

Evangelical Reformed
Click on a linked collection and then on the yellow "viewer" button to browse the images.

Baptisms (1672-1727), marriages (1643-1728), and burials (1720-1728) Baptisms (1730-1793), marriages (1730-1793), and burials (1730-1793) Baptisms (1794-1808, confirmations (1809-1840), marriages (1794-1808, and burials (1794-1808) Baptisms (1808-1840), marriages (1809-1840), and burials (1809-1840) Baptisms (1841-1889) and confirmations (1841-1920) Baptisms (1889-1959) -- unavailable online

Marriages (1841-1892) and burials (1841-1923) -- unavailable online Marriages (1893-1951) -- unavailable online

Family book volume A (1756-1905) Family book volume B (1855-1954) -- unavailable online

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Buchs families:

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

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen