Tegerfelden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tegerfelden 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 Catholic parish of Tegerfelden was first mentioned in 1257. After the Reformation, the town was mixed and the parish became Reformed. Catholics belonged to the parish of Unterendingen.

The Reformed parish included the minority Reformed residents in the muicipalities of Baldingen, Endingen, and Unterendingen.

Church Records
An inventory of the parish records for Canton Aargau can be found here.

Two different types of censuses were taken in Tegerfelden at different times.

Religious Censuses
See here for article describing the Zürich census records.

The following censuses are available for Tegerfelden:

Residential Censuses
(See here for information regarding Aargau census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Tegerfelden:
 * 1837 (images 551-562)
 * 1850: Form A (images 750-768)
 * 1850: Form B (images 769-774)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tegerfelden 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 Zürich (GHGZ)