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

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)