Appenzell Ausserrhoden Canton, Switzerland Genealogy

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Guide to Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Parish registers accessible online!
As of April 2014, the Staatsarchiv Appenzell has published the church records of all nineteen Appenzell-Ausserrhoden parishes online. The records can be accessed at this URL: https://www.ar.ch/verwaltung/kantonskanzlei/staatsarchiv/kirchenbuecher-online/. The records for Lutzenberg are found in the parish of Thal, which is part of the Canton of Sankt Gallen; those records are not available at this archive and therefore not online either.

Did You Know?
Appenzell Ausserrhoden is a German speaking canton. It joined the Swiss confederation in 1513 and has 20 communities.