Sins Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sins (Meienberg) 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 Meienberg, renamed Sins in 1941, is ancient; the parish church is called Mariä Geburt. It included Auw until 1638, Abtwil until 1748, and Mühlau until 1878.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Sins parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1607-1689; marriages, burials 1607-1614
 * Baptisms 1690-1731
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1631-1761; confirmations 1731-1753; first communions 1732-1761
 * Baptisms 1762-1868; marriages 1762-1863; burials 1762-1858; confirmations 1762-1886; first communions 1762-1861
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1599-1603, 1616-1685; burials 1673-1686
 * Marriages 1686-1725; burials 1686-1731; confirmations 1693-1730
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1875
 * Burials 1616-1654
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Confirmations 1603-1691

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family books, are found onsite at the Sins parish church office.
 * Family book 1859-1890
 * Family book 1859-1909

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Sins:
 * 1837 (images 557-577)
 * 1850: Form A (images 738-780)
 * 1850: Form B (image 781)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sins 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)