Zeiningen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zeiningen 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 Zeiningen was first mentioned in the tenth century; the parish church is called St. Agatha.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Zeiningen parish church office or the Rheinfelden civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1588-1637; marriages 1591-1640; burials 1590-1628
 * Baptisms 1637-1724; marriages 1640-1746; burials 1637-1731; confirmations 1670-1712
 * Baptisms 1724-1784; marriages 1747-1784; burials 1731-1784; confirmations 1749-1776
 * Baptisms 1784-1844; confirmations 1805-1865
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1844; first communions 1824-1870
 * Marriages 1817-1852; marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1846
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1784-1844
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Zeiningen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1835-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Zeiningen parish church office.
 * Family book 1870-1882

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Zeiningen:
 * 1837 (images 682-701)
 * 1850: Form A (images 379-403)
 * 1850: Form B (image 404)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zeiningen 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)