Widnau Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Widnau 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 online from the State Archive of Sankt Gallen for Widnau:

Evangelical Reformed
The residents of Widnau belonged to the Reformed parish of Diepoldsau.

Catholic
Click on a linked collection and then on the yellow "viewer" button to browse the images.

Baptisms (1742-1808), confirmations (1802-1806), and marriages (1742-1808) Baptisms (1808-1842) Confirmations (1819-1859, 1864-1872), marriages (1808-1842), and burials (1808-1842) Baptisms (1842-1895) Marriages (1842-1918) Burials (1842-1911)

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

The following censuses are available for Widnau:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Widnau families:

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

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen