Wegenstetten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wegenstetten 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 Wegenstetten is ancient. The church parish is called St. Michael. It includes the municipality of Hellikon.

Original church records are located onsite at the Wegenstetten municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1639-1752; marriages 1704-1752; burials 1649-1752; confirmations 1690-1750
 * Baptisms 1750-1805; marriages 1750-1784; burials 1750-1816; confirmations 1750-1805, 1810-1865
 * Baptisms Wegenstetten 1784-1843; baptisms Hellikon 1784-1839
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Wegenstetten parish church office. Note: Marriages 1784-1817 are missing.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wegenstetten:
 * 1837 (images 668-682)
 * 1850: Form A (images 359-377)
 * 1850: Form B (image 378)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wegenstetten 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)