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My wife has managed to track one line of her ancestry (the Swiss line) back to 985. Swiss church records (Kirchenbücher) are online and extremely good.
by dmd 6y ago
My wife has managed to track one line of her ancestry (the Swiss line) back to 985. Swiss church records (Kirchenbücher) are online and extremely good.
- bserge 6y agoWow, that's amazing. Come to think of it, many people were simply born at home and not registered with the state in the 1900's, but they would get baptised, so the Church should hold the record of that. I think the Soviet Union's laws against the Church might've player a role in the loss of records.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoBecause Switzerland has been so stable. Records tend to get "lost" en-masse only when there's a genocidal army bearing down.