Herznach Parish, Aargau, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Herznach 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 Herznach was first mentioned in 1180; the parish church is St. Niklaus. It includes the municipality of Ueken. The villages of Oberzeihen and Niederzeihen were part of Herznach until 1852, when the newly-created parish of Zeihen was established.

Original church records are located onsite at the Herznach parish church office. Microfilm copies of the following church records are available onsite at the Aargau State Archives:
 * Baptisms 1606-1683
 * Baptisms 1684-1810
 * Baptisms 1817-1861
 * Baptisms 1862-1875
 * Marriages 1606-1683
 * Marriages 1684-1784
 * Marriages 1785-1839 (organized by location)
 * Marriages 1817-1852
 * Marriages 1853-1875
 * Marriages non-resident citizens 1817-1852
 * Burials 1607-1683
 * Burials 1784-1840 (organized by location
 * Burials 1817-1875

Post-1875 church records, as well as the following church records, are found onsite at the Aarau parish church office:
 * Baptisms 1784-1844 (organized by location)
 * Burials 1684-1794

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Herznach:
 * 1837 (images 755-767)
 * 1850: Form A (images 405-426)
 * 1850: Form B (images 427-430)

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Herznach 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 Region Basel (GHGRB)