Switzerland Websites

The Switzerland research websites listed as "Favorites" at the Family History Library include:

Archives and libraries

 * Libraries in Switzerland
 * SwissGen LDS Locality Catalogue Switzerland
 * Swiss Federal Archives

Canton Information

 * Canton Basel-Land Archive site
 * Canton Bern State Archive - Genealogy
 * Graubünden Genealogy
 * Roman Catholic Church in Aargau
 * Swiss genealogy Cantons
 * Canton Freiburg State Archive

Databases

 * Marriage records and where to acquire them for Zürich Canton from 1525 to 1800

Emigration and Immigration

 * Hamburg Passenger Lists FamilySearch Wiki article. Note: the old Hamburg Passenger Lists Resource Guide has been incorporated into this article.
 * Swiss Volhynian Database at Ancestry.com

General

 * Schweizer Familienforschung auf dem Internet Deutsche Genealogie-Seiten
 * Swiss Family research on the net (In English, German, French or Italian)
 * Swiss Telephone Directories
 * Swiss Telephone Directories 2
 * Switzerland GenWeb
 * XE.com - The Full Universal Currency Converter
 * Familiennamenbuch der Schweiz Swiss Family Name Handbook
 * Swiss Genealogy Website
 * General information about Switzerland
 * Swiss embassy website
 * General Swiss Information website
 * Swiss research forum

Heraldry
Wappenauskunftsstelle der Zürcher Goldschmiede c/o Roland Spitzbarth Feldeggstr. 58 8008 Zürich Switzerland

History and Geography

 * General Swiss History
 * Swiss Historic Timeline
 * Google Book: A Short History of Switzerland
 * Map of Switzerland and Swiss cantons - Carte de Suisse et des cantons
 * map.search.ch/ (Karte: Schweiz - map search)

Language and Research guides

 * French Wordlist
 * France Letter Writing Guide
 * French Republican Calendar
 * German Word List
 * Germany Letter Writing Guide
 * Gothic Handwriting Guide
 * Italian Genealogical Word List
 * Italy Letter Writing Guide
 * Language Tools
 * Latin Genealogical Word List
 * SWISS LANGUAGE Map
 * Translation and Dictionary helps
 * UNESCO Directory of Religious Archives - Switzerland

Links

 * Switzerland Genealogy Links
 * Switzerland Genealogy Resources

Societies
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Familienforschung SGFF President Dr. Heinz Ochsner Grabenweg 1 4414 Füllinsdorf Switzerland Email:h.ochsner@dplanet.ch