Wettingen Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Wettingen 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 Wettingen was first mentioned in 1227; the parish church is called St. Sebastian. It included the municipalities of Neuenhof and Killwangen until 1887.
 * 1418-1996 at FamilySearch — How to Use this Collection; index and images

Original church records are located onsite at the Wettingen church parish office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms, burials 1651-1735; marriages 1709-1710, 1713-1735; confirmations 1652-1731
 * Baptisms 1735-1841; burials 1831-1840
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1876
 * Marriages non-citizens 1817-1875
 * Burials 1817-1867
 * Burials 1868-1875
 * Family book Wettingen

The following records, as well as all post-1875 church records, are found onsite at the Wettingen church parish office.
 * Baptisms 1817-1849
 * Baptisms 1850-1875
 * Marriages 1753-1837; burials 1747-1830; confirmations 1753-1917, 1922-1952
 * Banns 1821-1852
 * Family book Killwangen 1821-1848

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Wettingen:
 * 1837 (images 572-588)
 * 1850: Form A (images 185-223)
 * 1850: Form B (image 224)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Wettingen 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)