Walenstadt Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland Genealogy

Guide to Walenstadt Parish, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.



Surrounding Parishes
Quarten

Flums

Church Records
The following church records are available online from the State Archive of Sankt Gallen for Walenstadt:

Evangelical Reformed
The Reformed parish of Walenstadt was established in 1866. Before 1866, parishioners belonged to the parish of Bad Ragaz. Records are not available online.

Catholic
Click on a linked collection and then on the yellow "viewer" button to browse the images.

Baptisms (1630-1677) Baptisms (1677-1828) images 3-196 Baptisms (1829-1842) images 7-32 Baptisms Index (1842-1916) images 3-25 Baptisms (1842-1916) images 26-263

Confirmations (1681-1807) images 248-284 Confirmations (1798) images 202-207 Confirmations (1832-1867) images 53-70

Marriages (1686-1771) images 222-248 Marriages 1772-1807 images 207-222 Marriages (1808-1822) images 198-202 Marriages (1823-1828) images 197-198 Marriages (1829-1842) images 46-52 Marriages Index (1842-1918) images 3-24 Marriages (1842-1918) images 25-103

Burials (1710-1747) images 94-272 Burials (1748-1828)

Burials (1829-1842) images 33-45 Burials Index (1842-1937) images 3-20 Burials (1842-1937) images 22-233

Family book Index (census 1888) (1841-1888) images 3-14 Family book (census 1888) (1841-1888) images 15-158

Jahrzeitbuch (1634-) Jahrzeitbuch (1710-1747) images 3-93 Jahrzeitbuch (1765-)

Remembrance of Deceased Shipmen image 273 Remembrance of Deceased Fishermen image 274

Genealogies
(see here for article describing Swiss compiled genealogies)

The following genealogies have been researched for Walenstadt families:


 * Giger
 * Gubser
 * Heer
 * Hug
 * Kessler
 * Lendi
 * Linder
 * Muller
 * Steinmann
 * Zugenbuhler

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Walenstadt prior to 1875:

Related Sources
The town's website (in German) can be found here.

City of Walenstadt

Societies and Libraries
Cantonal Archive of Sankt Gallen