Laufenburg Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Laufenburg 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 Laufenburg has existed since the Middle Ages; its parish church is called Johannes der Täufer. It included the municipalities of Kaisten and Ittenthal until 1804.

The following church records are only available onsite at the Laufenburg municipal archive: Note: baptisms 1831-1875, marriages 1822-1938, and burials 1826-1946 are missing.
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1596-1683; confirmations 1649-1670
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1683-1767; confirmations 1684-1765
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1768-1784; confirmations 1775-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1831; confirmations 1830-1860
 * Marriages 1784-1822; selected families 1823-1826
 * Burials 1784-1826

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

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Laufenburg:
 * 1837 (images 670-680)
 * 1850: Form A (images 491-508)
 * 1850: Form B (images 509-512)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Laufenburg 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)