Boswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Boswil 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 Boswil was a large parish existing since the Middle Ages. It includes the municipality of Kallern. It included Waltenschwil until 1800.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Boswil:
 * 1837 (images 461-476)
 * 1850: Form A (images 613-642)
 * 1850: Form B (image 643)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)