Leuggern Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Leuggern 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 Leuggern was first mentioned in 1231; its parish church is called St. Peter und Paul. It includes the municipalities of Böttstein and Full-Reuenthal, and included Leibstadt until 1880.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Leuggern municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1650-1708; marriages, burials 1650-1777; confirmations 1655-1775
 * Baptisms 1709-1807
 * Baptisms 1808-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1844
 * Baptisms 1845-1875
 * Marriages, burials 1778-1816; confirmations 1775-1865
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1871
 * Burials 1817-1859
 * Burials 1860-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Leuggern parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Leuggern:
 * 1837 (images 671-694)
 * 1850: Form A (images 637-665)
 * 1850: Form B (image 666)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Leuggern 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)