Canton St.Gall (SG) |
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St.Gallen is situated in the North-East corner of Switzerland, next to Germany (across Lake Konstanz), Austria and Liechtenstein. The capital is the City of St.Gallen.
There are 90 communities in 14 districts in Kanton St.Gallen: Map (districts) and list of communes
Total population: 440'744 (incl. 18.2 % foreigners)
Population in major communities: see Map (districts) and list of communes
Language: German
Confessions: 60% Roman Catholic, 33% Reformed
Professions: total working population 217'724 (100 %)
- bold: more than 5 % / italic : more
than twice Swiss average
- farming: 4.15 % (CH total : 3.46 %)
- forestry and gardening: 0.54 (0.61) %
- energy, water supply, mining: 0.46 (0.69) %
- food, drink, tobacco industries: 2.26 (1.73) %
- textile, fashion, leather, shoes: 4.20
(1.35) %
- wood industries: 2.39 (1.76) %
- paper, graphical industry: 2.46 (2.19) %
- chemical industry: 1.07 (1.63) %
- plastic, rubber industries: 1.69 (0.57) %
- mining of stone and earth: 0.88 (0.79) %
- metal, engine building, car industry, electrotech. industry: 12.68 (9.63) %
- watches, jewellery: 0.07 (0.85) %
- building industry: 9.49 (8.79) %
- other industries: 0.53 (0.50) %
- commerce: 16.68 (16.85) %
- hotel and catering: 3.89 (4.40) %
- transport, communications: 5.07 (6.16) %
- banks, insurances: 10.74 (13.71) %
- education, research: 5.17 (5.68) %
- health care: 4.92 (5.82) %
- public administration: 2.87 (4.34) %
- other (trade and admin): 3.81 (4.88) %
- unknown: 3.99 (3.63) %
Source: Der Kanton St.Gallen in Zahlen 1996/97; Staatskanzlei St.Gallen mit finanzieller Unterstützung durch die St.Gallische Kantonalbank.
(unfortunately in German and French versions only)
The local genealogical society is
GENEALOGISCH-HERALDISCHE GESELLSCHAFT OSTSCHWEIZ
If you have questions about genealogical research in Kanton St.Gallen you may contact
for general questions and the city of St.Gallen
for the Toggenburg Valley
for the St.Gallen Rhine ValleyJust keep in mind, that all these volunteers are amateur
genealogists, answering your questions in their spare time.
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You are further invited to discuss your questions with other researchers interested in canton St.Gall on the "Genealogieforum St.Gallen" (dialogue in German or French). The archive is open to visitors to read; in order to be able to respond or start a new thread, however, registration (free of charge) is required. When posting, please, keep in mind that only topics related to St.Gallen should be placed here; for topics related to other regions, please, change to the corresponding canton or to the forum for Switzerland in general (dialogue in German or French).
The local historical society is
HISTORISCHER VEREIN DES KANTONS
ST.GALLEN
St.Gallen is also covered by the
VEREIN FÜR
DIE GESCHICHTE DES BODENSEES UND SEINER UMGEBUNG
Register of libraries and archives in Canton St.Gallen.
1. Official Home Page of Kanton
2. Home Pages of Tourist Offices and the like:
3. Private Pages on Kanton:
1. Family Pages
2. Sources
The church records of Canton St.Gall.
The annals (Jahrzeitbücher) in the catholic parishes of Canton St.Gall.
Genalogical information supplied by "Ortsbuergergemeinde" (city of)
St.Gallen (in
German)
(surname index of citizens' register "Bürgerbuch
2000")
Ortsfamilienbuch Rebstein (Register of the citizen families of Rebstein)
Familien-Register der evangelischen Gemeinde Wildhaus (Scans of original document of 1854)
Kirchenbücher der katholischen Gemeinde Wittenbach (extracts of selected church records)
Genealogies of Wartau (compiled by Jakob Kuratli)
Fäh Johann: Zur Geschlechterkunde des Gasters (families of the Gaster region)
Marriages in Uznach SG (1612 - 1822) involving foreigners
Die 14 alten Widnauer Bürgergeschlechter (old families of Widnau)
Stiftsarchiv St.Gallen: genealogical sources (in German)
Sources on emigration from canton St.Gallen
City Archive St.Gallen (Vadiana): Ämterarchiv (Bücher) (in German)
Die Gründungszeit des Kantons St.Gallen in den Protokollen des Bezirksarztes Falk im Distrikt Gossau (The era of foundation of canton St.Gallen as seen by the Dr.Falk, physician of the region of Gossau)
Biographical data on persons involved in local and regional transport in Eastern Switzerland (in German - but mostly selfexplanatory tables)
Genealogical collection of Fritz Müller of Waldtsatt AR and Fischenthal ZH (in German)
Publication series "St.Galler Kultur und Geschichte"
Neujahrsblätter des
Historischen Vereins des Kantons St.Gallen
Register of memorial lists in
the above (in German - but mostly
selfexplanatory tables)
Recent publications on St.Gallen and Switzerland
Bibliography on Ulrich Bräker (1735-1798)
Looser Families of the Toggenburg Valley
Emigration from the Gaster region
Ostschweizer (Familien-) Geschichte aktuell: calendar of events and publications related to genealogy and history in Eastern Switzerland (in German).
Geschichte der Stadt Wil (History of the city of Wil SG with many historical and up-to-date pictures)
Mediengeschichte des Kantons St.Gallen (History of press and other media in canton St.Gallen, also including periodical publications of genealogical interest)
Archiv für Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte Ostschweiz
St.Leonhardstr. 63
CH - 9000 St.Gallen
Tel. und Fax: +41 71 222 99 64
e-mail: frauenarchiv.ostschweiz@bluewin.ch
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