Gränichen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Gränichen, 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
Gränichen was established as a parish after the Reformation in 1528.

Original church records are located onsite at the Gränichen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1561-1602; marriages 1561-1568, 1580-1602
 * Baptisms 1619-1665
 * Baptisms 1668-1716; marriages 1612-1617, 1621-1747
 * Baptisms 1716-1747
 * Baptisms 1748-1785
 * Baptisms 1786-1801
 * Baptisms 1802-1816
 * Marriages 1748-1814
 * Burials 1614-1723, 1732-1747
 * Burials 1748-1814

The following church records are only available onsite at the Gränichen municipal archive:


 * Baptisms 1817-1836
 * Baptisms 1837-1856
 * Baptisms 1857-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1829
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1829-1836
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1837-1844
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1844-1875
 * Burials 1815-1816
 * Burials 1817-1851
 * Burials 1852-1875
 * Family book 1766 (no. 1-530)
 * Family book 1771 (no. 531-894)
 * Family book 1843 (no. 895-1140)
 * Family book 1870 (no. 1141-1406)

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Gränichen:
 * 1837 (images 167-225)
 * 1850: Form A (images 226-300)
 * 1850: Form B (images 301-302)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Gränichen 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 Bern (GHGB)