Boswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Boswil 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 Boswil, named St. Pankraz, is a large parish existing since the Middle Ages. It includes the municipality of Kallern. It included Waltenschwil until 1800.

Original church records are located onsite at the Boswil parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1670-1724
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1725-1875; confirmations 1731-1780
 * Baptisms 1782-1816; marriages 1782-1821; marriages 1782-1817
 * Baptisms 1817-1886; marriages 1821-1886; burials 1818-1885; confirmations 1786-1881

The following church records are only available onsite at the Boswil municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1819-1873
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Boswil parish church office:
 * Family book 1760-1764
 * Family book 1765-1784
 * Family book Boswil 1787-1794
 * Family book Waltenschwil and Büelisacker 1787-1795
 * Family book 1798-1805
 * Family book 1820-1847
 * Family book 1846-1882

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Boswil:
 * 1837 (images 461-476)
 * 1850: Form A (images 613-642)
 * 1850: Form B (image 643)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Boswil 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)