Gelterkinden Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Gelterkinden 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
The church in Gelterkinden is ancient, dating from the 9th or 10th centuries. The area became Reformed during the 1520s. The parish of Gelterkinden includes the communities of Rickenbach and Tecknau; it included Ormalingen until 1740.

Parish records for Gelterkinden are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 41 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1595-1918 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1594-1953 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1703-1932 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1690-1935 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1857-1928 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by community

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Gelterkinden:
 * 1815 (images 96-120)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Gelterkinden 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)