Buus Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Buus Parish, Basel-Landschaft, 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 church of St. Michael in Buus was first mentioned in 1273. The area became Reformed in 1529. The parish included the municipality of Maisprach until 1935; Hemmiken was part of the parish until 1741.

Parish records for Buus are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 21 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1559-1908 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive
 * 1593-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1642-1890 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1809-1930 Family books at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - organized by community

Census
(See here for information regarding Basel-Landschaft census records.)

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Buus:
 * 1815 (images 346-359)

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

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

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Basel-Landschaft

Societies
Genealogical-Heraldic Society of Region Basel (GHGRB)