Magden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Magden 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 church, St. Martin, in Magden was built in 1620.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Magden Christian Catholic parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1611-1614, 1618-1682; confirmations 1649-1660
 * Marriages 1611-1651, 1656-1682; burials 1611-1652, 1658-1682
 * Baptisms 1682-1806; confirmations 1684-1765
 * Marriages, burials 1682-1784

The following church records are only available onsite at the Magen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1815
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1784-1815
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Magden Christian Catholic parish church office.
 * Baptisms 1784-1816

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Magden:
 * 1837 (images 765-786)
 * 1850: Form A (images 141-169)
 * 1850: Form B (images 170-173)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Magden 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)