Wettingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wettingen 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 Wettingen was first mentioned in 1227. It included the municipalities of Neuenhof and Killwangen until 1887.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wettingen:
 * 1837 (images 572-588)
 * 1850: Form A (images 185-223)
 * 1850: Form B (image 224)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wettingen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)