Meisterschwanden Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Meisterschwanden 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 Meisterschwanden became independent in 1817; it included the municipality of Fahrwangen. Before 1817, it belonged to the parish of Seengen. See Seengen for earlier records.

Original church records are located onsite at the Fahrwangen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1820-1868
 * Baptisms 1869-1875
 * Marriages 1820-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriage banns 1820-1852
 * Marriages, non-resident citizens 1823-1874
 * Burials 1820-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church volume, are found onsite at the Meisterschwanden parish church office:
 * Family book, 1820-1896

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

Tennwil was a municipality until 1900, when it became part of Meisterschwanden. During these censuses, it was enumerated separately. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Meisterschwanden and Tennwil:

Meisterschwanden

 * 1837 (images 153-163)
 * 1850: Form A (images 217-234)
 * 1850: Form B (images 235-236)

Tennwil

 * 1837 (images 118-124)
 * 1850: Form A (images 495-501)
 * 1850: Form B (image 502)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Meisterschwanden 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)