Boswil Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Boswil 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 Boswil, named St. Pankraz, is a large parish existing since the Middle Ages. It includes the municipality of Kallern. It included Waltenschwil until 1800.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Boswil parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials, confirmations 1670-1724
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1725-1875; confirmations 1731-1780
 * Baptisms 1782-1816; marriages 1782-1821; marriages 1782-1817
 * Baptisms 1817-1886; marriages 1821-1886; burials 1818-1885; confirmations 1786-1881

The following church records are only available onsite at the Boswil municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1819-1873
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Boswil parish church office:
 * Family book 1760-1764
 * Family book 1765-1784
 * Family book Boswil 1787-1794
 * Family book Waltenschwil and Büelisacker 1787-1795
 * Family book 1798-1805
 * Family book 1820-1847
 * Family book 1846-1882

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Boswil:
 * 1837 (images 461-476)
 * 1850: Form A (images 613-642)
 * 1850: Form B (image 643)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Boswil prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)