Menziken, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Menziken, 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

 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Catholic
The parish of Menziken was created in 1951, though it has records from earlier. The parish church is called St. Anna.

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Menziken parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1862-1947
 * Marriages 1869-1949
 * Burials 1862-1974

Reformed
Menziken belonged to the parish of Reinach until 1890. See Reinach for earlier records.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Menziken:
 * 1837 (images 546-565)
 * 1850: Form A (images 32-77)
 * 1850: Form B (images 78-79)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Menziken 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 Bern (GHGB)