Bözen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Bözen 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 Bözen was established in 1600. It includes the municipalities of Effingen and Elfingen, as well as Densbüren (until 1642) and Linn (until 1649). Original church records are located onsite at the Böztal 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 1562-1604
 * Baptisms, marriages 1604-1685; burials 1604-1629, 1644, 1668-1669
 * Baptisms, marriages 1685-1757; burials 1704-1757; confirmations 1731-1751
 * Baptisms 1751-1814; baptisms non-resident citizens 1819-1827
 * Baptisms 1815-1875
 * Marriages 1731-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1750-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Bözen parish church office, as well as the following volume:
 * Family book, Bözen, Effingen, Elfingen 1757-1826

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Bözen:
 * 1837 (images 216-226)
 * 1850: Form A (images 96-109)
 * 1850: Form B (images 110-111)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Bözen 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)