Zuzgen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Zuzgen 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 Zuzgen was first mentioned in 1288; the parish church is called St. Georg.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Rheinfelden civil registration office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1647-1784; marriages 1648-1775; burials 1648-1776; confirmations 1649-1810
 * Baptisms 1784-1816 (organized by location); confirmations 1830-1885; first communions 1834-1863
 * Baptisms 1817-1875
 * Marriages 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1817-1853
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1818-1852
 * Burials 1784-1816 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church record, are found onsite at the Zuzgen parish church office:
 * Marriages Niederhofen 1785-1788; banns 1829-1864

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Zuzgen:
 * 1837 (images 701-710)
 * 1850: Form A (images 405-423)
 * 1850: Form B (images 424-425)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Zuzgen 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)