Aarau Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Aarau 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
Originally part of Suhr, Aarau became Reformed in the 1530s. Aarau was established as an independent parish in 1568.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Aarau:
 * 1837 (images 5-86)
 * 1850: Form A (images 6-116)
 * 1850: Form B (images 117-126)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Aarau 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)