Zufikon Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zufikon 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 Zufikon was first mentioned in 1285; the parish church is called St. Martin.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Raiffeisenbank Depot Zufikon. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1607-1646; marriages 1608-1643; burials 1611-1645; confirmations 1616-1642
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Raiffeisenbank Depot Zufikon:
 * Baptisms 1607-1801; marriages, burials 1647-1801; confirmations 1647-1797
 * Baptisms 1876-1913
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1876-1930
 * Burials 1876-1945
 * Family book 1857-1863

All later church records are found onsite at the Zufikon parish church office.

Note: Baptisms and burials 1801-1817, and marriages 1800-1853 are missing.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Zufikon:
 * 1837 (images 63-70)
 * 1850: Form A (images 767-782)
 * 1850: Form B (image 783)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zufikon prior to 1875:

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)