Obersiggenthal Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Obersiggenthal 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
Located in Obersiggenthal, the parish of Kirchdorf was first mentioned in the ninth century; its parish church is called Peter und Paul. It includes the municipality of Untersiggenthal.

The following church records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are available onsite in the Kirchdorf parish church archive:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1651-1699 (with gaps)
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1700-1769; confirmations 1701-1753
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1770-1818; confirmations 1780-1797
 * Baptisms, burials 1819-1875; marriages 1819-1845
 * Family book 1872-1917

Original church records are located onsite at the Obersiggenthal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1817-1858
 * Baptisms 1859-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Obersiggenthal:
 * 1837 (images 527-541)
 * 1850: Form A (images 99-126)
 * 1850: Form B (image 127)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Obersiggenthal 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)