Sins Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sins (Meienberg) 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 Meienberg, renamed Sins in 1941, is ancient. It included Auw until 1638, Abtwil until 1748, and Mühlau until 1878.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Sins:
 * 1837 (images 557-577)
 * 1850

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sins 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)