Zeihen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zeihen 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 Zeihen was created in 1852 from the parish of Herznach; the parish church is called St. Karl Borromäus. See Herznach for earlier records.

The following church records are only available onsite at the Zeihen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1853-1875
 * Family book 1854-1940

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

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

Niederzeihen was a municipality until 1853, when it merged with the village of Oberzeihen (part of Herznach) into the municipality of Zeihen. For censuses for Oberzeihen, see Herznach. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Niederzeihen:
 * 1837 (images 5-13)
 * 1850: Form A (images 708-719)
 * 1850: Form B (image 720)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zeihen 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)