Biel-Benken Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Biel-Benken 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

 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Biel-Benken:
 * 1815: Biel (images 547-552)
 * 1815: Benken (images 553-562)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Biel-Benken 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)