Oberehrendingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Oberehrendingen 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 Catholic parish, called St. Blasius, was first mentioned in 1580. It includes the former municipality of Unterehrendingen.

Original church records are located onsite at the Ehrendingen parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1636-1840
 * Marriages, burials 1720-1840

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Ehrendingen parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church volume is located at the Zurzach Catholic parish church office:
 * Family book Ehrendingen and Unterehrendingen 1838-1842

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Oberehrendingen:
 * 1837 (images 421-427)
 * 1850: Form A (images 650-665)
 * 1850: Form B (image 666)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Oberehrendingen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)