Tenniken Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tenniken Parish, Basel-Landschaft, 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
Tenniken has been an independent parish since the Reformation in 1529. The municipality of Zunzgen was transferred to Tenniken in 1830.

Parish records for Tenniken are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 37 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1578-1922 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1579-1919 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive- with gaps
 * 1730-1947 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1766-1889 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1708-1911 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location

Census
(See here for information regarding Basel-Landschaft census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Tenniken:
 * 1815 (images 512-520)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tenniken prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Basel-Landschaft

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)