Thal Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

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

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

Evangelical Reformed
Thal and Lutzenberg was united until 1716 with the parish of Rheineck. Records were kept at Rheineck.

Thal

Baptisms and burials (1716-1770) -- '''unavailable online--- Baptisms (1810-1840) Baptisms (1840-1881) and confirmations (1840-1916) Baptisms (1882-1923 ) -- unavailable online

Confirmations (1804-1839)

Non-citizen marriages (1806-1880) Marriages (1831-1858) Marriages (1835-1847) Marriages (1840-1884) and burials (1840-1889) Marriages (1858-1875)

Burials Strazza (1810-1827)

Family book volume 1 (1-520) (1773-1841) Family book volume 2 (521-1040) (1778-1873) Family book volume 3 (1873-1942) -- unavailable online Family book: non-citizen residents (1846-1907) Family book, non-citizen residents (1881-1895 ) Household register with family entries (1814-1875)

Lutzenberg

Baptisms, marriages, and burials (1761-1868) -- unavailable online Baptisms (1810-1846) Baptisms (1869-1875) -- unavailable online

Confirmations (1804-1834), Strazza court notes (1804-1834)

Marriages (1829-1848) Marriages (1840-1875) -- unavailable online

Burials (1810-1834) Baptisms (1870-1877) and burials (1835-1877) Burials (1867-1875) -- unavailable online

Family book, non-citizen residents (1842-1897)

Thal: Geburt-, Tauf- und Totenbuch (1847-1879) Thal: Strazza für das Taufbuch (1841-1856) Thal: Geburts- und Totenliste (1850-1869)

Thal: Totenbuch (1828-1847) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Ehebuch (1808-1834) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf-, Ehe- und Totenbuch (1716-1770) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf-, Ehe- und Totenbuch (1788-1798) Thal-Lutzenberg AR: Tauf- und Totenbuch (1804-1809)

Catholic
Baptisms (1587-1643) Baptisms (1639-1829), confirmations (1657-1820), marriages (1639-1826), and burials (1769-1829) Baptisms (1830-1892) and confirmations (1831-1889) Baptisms (1887-1898), marriages (1887-1898), and burials (1887-1898) Baptisms (1893-1972) -- unavailable online

Marriages (1830-1893) Marriages (1893-1972) -- unavailable online

Burials (1830-1892) Burials (1893-1972)

Family book volume 9 and non-citizen residents (1819-1881)

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

The following censuses are available for Thal:

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Thal families:

Lutz family, by Julius Billeter (FHL Film 127,973; see also FHL Film 193,478)

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

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

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen