Auw Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Auw 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 Auw was created in 1638 from the parish of Sins. See Sins for earlier records.

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

Auw includes the village of Rüstenschwil. The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Auw:
 * 1837: Auw (images 408-415)
 * 1837: Rüstenschwil (image 415-418)
 * 1850: Form A (images 539-559)
 * 1850: Form B (image 560)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Aargau

Societies
Central Swiss Society for Family History (ZGF)