Mellingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Mellingen 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 Catholic parish was first mentioned in 1045; the parish church is called Johannes der Täufer. It was briefly Reformed from 1529-1532, when it was recatholicized.

Original church records are located onsite at the Mellingen municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1619-1730
 * Baptisms, marriages, burials 1731-1804; confirmations 1731-1797
 * Marriages 1804-1876
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1871
 * Burials 1817-1875
 * Family book 1819-1879

he following church records are only available onsite at the Mellingen municipal archive:
 * Baptisms 1804-1892
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Burials 1804-1947

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following family book, are found onsite at the Mellingen parish church office.
 * Family book 1860-1898

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Mellingen:
 * 1837 (images 492-500)
 * 1850: Form A (images 18-37)
 * 1850: Form B (images 38-39)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Mellingen 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 Zürich (GHGZ)