Kaiseraugst Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaiseraugst 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 Kaiseraugst was first mentioned in 894; the parish church is St. Gallus. It included Olsberg until 1786.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kaiseraugst Christian Catholic parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1683-1782; confirmations 1750-1776
 * Olsberg: Baptisms, burials 1727-1788; marriages 1728-1777
 * Baptisms 1782-1816
 * Baptisms Olsberg 1784-1787; baptisms Kaiseraugst 1810-1877
 * Marriages 1786-1816
 * Marriages 1811-1876
 * Burials 1782-1816
 * Burials Olsberg 1784-1786; burials 1811-1863

The following church records are only available onsite at the Kaiseraugst municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1866
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Kaiseraugst Christian Catholic parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1593-1632, 1637-1684; marriages, burials 1593-1692

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaiseraugst:
 * 1837 (images 722-730)
 * 1850: Form A (images 130-139)
 * 1850: Form B (image 140)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaiseraugst 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)