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; the parish church is called Mariä Geburt. It included Auw until 1638, Abtwil until 1748, and Mühlau until 1878.

Original church records are located onsite at the Sins parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1607-1689; marriages, burials 1607-1614
 * Baptisms 1690-1731
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1631-1761; confirmations 1731-1753; first communions 1732-1761
 * Baptisms 1762-1868; marriages 1762-1863; burials 1762-1858; confirmations 1762-1886; first communions 1762-1861
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1599-1603, 1616-1685; burials 1673-1686
 * Marriages 1686-1725; burials 1686-1731; confirmations 1693-1730
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1875
 * Burials 1616-1654
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1603-1691

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family books, are found onsite at the Sins parish church office.
 * Family book 1859-1890
 * Family book 1859-1909

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Sins:
 * 1837 (images 557-577)
 * 1850: Form A (images 738-780)
 * 1850: Form B (image 781)

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)