Kaisten Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Kaisten 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
Kaisten belonged to the parish of Laufenburg until 1804, when it became an independent parish.; its parish church is St. Michael. Ittenthal was part of the parish until 1812, when it fully separated.

Original church records are located onsite at the Kaisten municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1602-1711; marriages 1602-1716; burials 1643-1703; confirmations 1670-1705
 * Baptisms 1708-1787; marriages, burials 1728-1787
 * Baptisms 1784-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875

The following church records are only available onsite at the Kaisten municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1817-1834
 * Marriages 1784-1816
 * Marriages 1817-1834
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1854
 * Burials 1817-1834
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records are found onsite at the Kaisten parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Kaisten:
 * 1837 (images 787-803)
 * 1850: Form A (images 460-488)
 * 1850: Form B (images 489-490)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Kaisten 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)