Sankt Margrethen Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Sankt Margrethen Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.



Church Records
The following church records are available from the State Archive of Sankt Gallen for Sankt Margrethen:

Evangelical Reformed
Baptisms (1617-1697), marriages (1617-1697), and burials (1654-1697) Baptisms (1697-1808), marriages (1697-1808), and burials (1697-1808) Baptisms (1808-1853) and burials (1808-1858) Baptisms (1854-1897), marriages (1858-1897), and burials (1854-1905) Marriages (1738-1753; 1808-1857) Confirmations (1808-1907)

Family book (1809-1823) Family register (1760-1882) Family book (entries 480-756) (1865-1942) -- unavailable online Family book, non-citizen residents (entries 1-300) (1849-1903) Family book, non-citizen residents (entries 301-443) (1886-1912)

Town history (1800)

Catholic
Baptisms (1733-1829), confirmations (1737-1872), marriages (1733-1829), and burials (1733-1781) Baptisms (1830-1897), marriages (1830-1897), and burials (1830-1898) Baptisms (1898-1929), marriages (1898-1939), and burials (1898-1899) -- unavailable online

Census Records
(see here for article describing the Zürich census records)

The following censuses are available for Sankt Margrethen:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Sankt Margrethen families:

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sankt Margrethen prior to 1875:

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen