Mönthal Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mönthal 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 Mönthal was established in 1860. Prior to 1860, Mönthal belonged to the parish of Brugg. See Brugg for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mönthal municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1578-1653; burials 1583-1627, 1636-1652
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1654-1751; confirmations 1694-1751
 * Baptisms 1752-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1752-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1752-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book, citizens and non-citizen residents 1873-1924

The following church record is only available onsite at the Mönthal municipal archive:
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1834-1863

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mönthal:
 * 1837 (images 285-293)
 * 1850: Form A (images 253-265)
 * 1850: Form B (images 266-268)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mönthal 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)