Auw Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Auw 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 St. Nikolaus in Auw was created in 1638 from the parish of Sins. See Sins for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Dottikon municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1638-1758; confirmations 1641-1748 (with gaps)
 * Baptisms, burials 1759-1866; marriages 1759-1852; confirmations 1767-1865

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Auw parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1818-1852
 * Marriages 1852-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1861
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book Rüstenschwil 1820-1846
 * Family book Auw 1866-1898
 * Family book Auw and Rüstenschwil 1866-1900
 * Family book non-citizen residents 1866-1945
 * Family book non-citizen residents 1901-1905

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

Auw includes the village of Rüstenschwil. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Auw:
 * 1837: Auw (images 408-415)
 * 1837: Rüstenschwil (image 415-418)
 * 1850: Form A (images 539-559)
 * 1850: Form B (image 560)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Auw 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)