Sankt Margrethen Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Sankt Margrethen Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.



Church Records
The following church records are available online from the State Archive of Sankt Gallen for Sankt Margrethen. Click on a linked collection and then on the yellow "viewer" button to browse the images.

Evangelical Reformed
Baptisms (1617-1697), marriages (1617-1697), and burials (1654-1697) Baptisms (1697-1808), marriages (1697-1808), and burials (1697-1808) Baptisms (1808-1853) and burials (1808-1858) Baptisms (1854-1897), marriages (1858-1897), and burials (1854-1905) Marriages (1738-1753; 1808-1857) Confirmations (1808-1907)

Family book (1809-1823) Family register (1760-1882) Family book (entries 480-756) (1865-1942) -- unavailable online Family book, non-citizen residents (entries 1-300) (1849-1903) Family book, non-citizen residents (entries 301-443) (1886-1912)

Town history (Chronik) (1800)

Catholic
Baptisms (1733-1829), confirmations (1737-1872), marriages (1733-1829), and burials (1733-1781) Baptisms (1830-1897), marriages (1830-1897), and burials (1830-1898) Baptisms (1898-1929), marriages (1898-1939), and burials (1898-1939) -- unavailable online

Census Records
(see here for article describing the Zürich census records)

The following censuses are available for Sankt Margrethen:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Sankt Margrethen families:

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sankt Margrethen prior to 1875:

Related Sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen