Frick Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Frick 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 Frick has existed since the Middle Ages, though the church, St. Peter und Paul, was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War. It included the municipality of Sisseln until 1796 and Gipf-Oberfrick until 1956.

Original church records are located onsite at the Frick municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1682-1745; confirmations 1684-1730
 * Baptisms 1746-1784; confirmations 1749-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1826 (organized by location); confirmations 1830-1841
 * Marriages 1682-1784
 * Marriages 1784-1826 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1683-1784
 * Burials 1784-1825 (organized by location)

The following church records are available onsite in the Frick municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1850
 * Baptisms 1851-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Frick:
 * 1837 (images 702-719)
 * 1850: Form A (images 322-348)
 * 1850: Form B (images 349-350)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Frick 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)