Laufen Parish, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Laufen 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 in Laufen was first mentioned in 1265. The area became Protestant during the Reformation in 1525, but it was re-Catholicized in 1588. Laufen included the municipalities of Dittingen, Grellingen, Nenzlingen, and Röschenz until 1802; Wahlen until 1839, and Zwingen until 1906.

Parish records for Laufen are available online from the Basel-Landschaft State Archive. The 12 volumes of digitized records include:
 * 1588-1875 Baptisms at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1588-1875 Marriages at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1601-1875 Burials at Basel-Landschaft State Archive - with gaps
 * 1707-1784 Confirmations at Basel-Landschaft State Archive

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

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Laufen 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)