Waldenburg Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Waldenburg Parish, Basel-Landschaft, 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
Waldenburg became Reformed during the 1520s. It includes the municipalities of Liedertswil, Niederdorf, and Oberdorf. It also included the municipality of Titterten until 1765. Parish records for Waldenburg are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 63 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1660-1912 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location
 * 1660-1941 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps; organized by location
 * 1708-1933 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps; organized by location
 * 1660-1929 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1859-1883 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by location

Census
(See here for information regarding Basel-Landschaft census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Waldenburg:
 * 1815 (images 521-537)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Basel-Landschaft

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)