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==Time Coverage: Canton Censuses== | ==Time Coverage: Canton Censuses== | ||
Each canton was responsible for enumerating its own people. Prior to 1798, most cantons, particularly in eastern and southern Switzerland, did not conduct censuses. After 1815, most cantons set up some form of census until the federal census was fully established in 1850. | |||
*The first city census was taken in the city of Bern in 1764. They were taken at 15 year intervals from 1811 to 1850, at 10 year intervals since 1850.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Switzerland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1984-1998.</ref> | *1634-1767 Zürich religious census: census registers of the Reformed parishes of the Zürich Synod, covering areas in present-day Zürich, Thurgau, and Sankt Gallen, as well as a few villages in Aargau, Schaffhausen, and Appenzell Ausserrhoden. | ||
* | *1764 Bern City census: The first city census was taken in the city of Bern in 1764. They were taken at 15 year intervals from 1811 to 1850, at 10 year intervals since 1850.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Switzerland,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1984-1998.</ref> | ||
*1798 Census, Men of Bern: Transcription of the register of male citizens ages 20 to 69 of the Canton of Bern who took oaths of allegiance in 1798. [https://www.worldcat.org/title/43403633 Search for a copy near you.] | |||
==Time Coverage: Federal Censuses== | ==Time Coverage: Federal Censuses== | ||