Windisch Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Windisch 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 Windisch was first mentioned in the sixth century, and became Reformed in 1528. It includes the municipalites of Altenburg (now part of Brugg), Habsburg, Hausen (until 1978), and Mülligen.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Windisch:
 * 1837 (images 406-424)
 * 1850: Form A (images 492-522)
 * 1850: Form B (image 523)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Windisch 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)