Densbüren Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Densbüren, 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
Initially a part of the parish of Bözen, Densbüren became an independent parish in 1642.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Densbüren municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages 1562-1640; burials 1665-1748 (extract dated 1894)
 * Baptisms 1637-1736; marriages 1636-1752
 * Baptisms 1737-1752
 * Baptisms 1752-1817
 * Marriages 1752-1852
 * Burials 1676-1752; confirmations 1729-1751
 * Burials 1752-1817
 * Confirmations 1708-1729, 1752-1913
 * Family book Densbüren 1780-1860
 * Family book Densbüren 1805-1873
 * Family book Asp 1780-1862
 * Family book Asp 1804-1862

The following church records are only available onsite at the Densbüren municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1869
 * Baptisms 1870-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Densbüren parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Densbüren:
 * 1837 (images 287-309)
 * 1850: Form A (images 171-198)
 * 1850: Form B (image 199)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Densbüren 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 Bern (GHGB)