Suhr Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Suhr, 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 Suhr is ancient. After the Reformation, the parish included Aarau (until 1568), Untermuhen (until 1543), Rupperswil (until 1681), Buchs (until 1946), Rohr (until 1946), Unterentfelden (until 1959), and Hunzenschwil (until 1960).

Original church records are located onsite at the Suhr municipal archive. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Aarau:
 * 1837 (images 112-140)
 * 1850: Form A (images 444-477)
 * 1850: Form B (images 478-479)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Suhr 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 Bern (GHGB)