Möhlin Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Möhlin 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 church of Möhlin was first mentioned in the eighth century; the church is called St. Leodegar.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

The following church records are available onsite in the Rheinfelden civil registration office:
 * Baptisms 1702-1784; marriages, burials 1697-1784; confirmations 1749-1765
 * Baptisms 1784-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1854
 * Baptisms 1855-1876
 * Marriages 1784-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1876
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1851
 * Burials 1784-1816
 * Burials 1817-1861
 * Burials 1862-1876

The following church records are only available onsite at the Möhlin municipal archive:
 * Family book A-M 1855-1873
 * Family book M-Z 1855-1873

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Möhlin:
 * 1837 (images 730-765)
 * 1850: Form A (images 174-222)
 * 1850: Form B (images 223-226)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Möhlin 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)