Zell Parish, Zürich, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Zell Parish, Zurich, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

Surrounding Parishes
Kyburg Schlatt Seen Turbenthal Weisslingen Wildberg

Census Records
(see here for article describing the Zürich census records)

The following censuses are available for Zell:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Zell families:

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

Bosshard Büchi Buff (1835, from Reichenburg) Decker (1850, from Germany) Egli Furrer Graf (1874, from Germany) Grob Hofmann Huguenin (1831, from France) Hürlimann Isler Kägi Keller Kleinert Kuhn Kündig Meili Metzger Mörgeli Müller Näf Nüssli Oehninger Ott Peter Ramp Saxer Schneider Schoch Schwarz (1826) Stahel Wäckerlig Warmbrodt (from Siselen) Winkler Wirth Zuppinger

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Zürich