Mandach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mandach 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 Mandach was established by 1072. It includes the municipality of Hottwil.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mandach municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1578-1635
 * Baptisms 1635-1701; marriages 1649-1700; burials 1650-1657
 * Baptisms, marriages 1701-1751; burials 1728-1751; confirmations 1739-1750

The following church records are only available onsite at the [hhttps://www.mandach.ch/ Mandach municipal archive]:
 * Baptisms 1752-1816
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Baptisms 1876-1964
 * Baptisms non-resident citizens 1847-1861; marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1861
 * Marriages 1752-1816; banns 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages 1877-1984
 * Burials 1752-1816
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 burial and post-1752 confirmation records are found onsite at the Mandach parish church office.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mandach:
 * 1837 (images 277-285)
 * 1850: Form A (images 239-251)
 * 1850: Form B (image 252)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mandach 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 Bern (GHGB)