Genève, Genève, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Genève, Genève, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.

Parishes within Genève

 * Chapelle de l'Hôpital
 * German church
 * Italian church
 * Madeleine
 * St-Germain
 * St-Gervais
 * St-Pierre
 * Temple Neuf / Temple de la Fusterie

Notarial Records
Notaries were used by Genevans to record legal transactions, including marriage contracts, wills, property purchases, apprenticeships, and more. Records are organized by the notary who recorded the transactions. Some volumes have handwritten indexes in the front or back of the volumes.

The Geneva State Archive has some notarial records available online.

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

Related sources
The town's website (in French) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
Genève State Archive

Societies
Geneva Society of Genealogy (SGG)