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Latest revision as of 21:14, 11 August 2025
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| Switzerland Beginning Research |
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| Switzerland Background |
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In other languages: Guide to Switzerland ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Information[edit | edit source]
Switzerland is a landlocked country in Western and Central Europe surrounded by France, Austria, Germany, Italy, and Liechtenstein. Switzerland's east and central cantons are primarily German speakers, western areas include many French speakers, and Italian speakers are found in southern Switzerland. The Swiss Republic is now over 715 years old, making it the oldest republic in the world.[1]
Switzerland Map[edit | edit source]
Genealogical records are kept at the local level in Switzerland.
Cantons[edit | edit source]
Switzerland is divided into a series of cantons:
Language Map of Switzerland[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Switzerland," in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland, accessed 23 March 2016.