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Title: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: JonOfWilts on Tuesday 25 May 21 16:43 BST (UK)
Does anyone know if full transcriptions exist for church records (Baptisms, Marriages and Burials) in Switzerland?  For example the Bern archive has hundreds of church registers with all the images online for that canton - but no transcriptions.  The main genealogy sites only seem to have a small proportion of all Swiss records transcribed and indexed - and not Bern.
Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: garstonite on Wednesday 26 May 21 06:58 BST (UK)
post a surname
Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: pb_devon on Wednesday 26 May 21 08:20 BST (UK)
The only transcription resource of note for Switzerland are those of at familysearch.com
Maybe others can suggest any more, but I’m not aware of significant ones.
Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: JonOfWilts on Wednesday 26 May 21 10:04 BST (UK)
Surname of interest = CHERRY and all its variants (CHERY, CHERI, CHERRI, SCHERY, SHERRY, CHERIE, CHERYE, CHIRIE)
Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: garstonite on Wednesday 26 May 21 10:19 BST (UK)
Surname of interest = CHERRY and all its variants (CHERY, CHERI, CHERRI, SCHERY, SHERRY, CHERIE, CHERYE, CHIRIE)

it would help if you gave a timeline and also Christian names - here is an example of a Familytree from Frenkendorf ,Basle ,Switzerland
https://gw.geneanet.org/humbertmel?n=schery&oc=&p=adele

Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: pb_devon on Wednesday 26 May 21 11:47 BST (UK)
OP has another thread running on this subject, https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=849193.0
Perhaps you should close that one to keep all replies in one place.
The surname could have been changed over time, especially if moving to an English speaking location. Sche**** is a likely start. Go to https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/famn/index.php and type ‘sche’ in the surname box, then select BE for Canton and see the variations possible.
Title: Re: Transcriptions of Swiss Church Records?
Post by: JonOfWilts on Thursday 27 May 21 09:47 BST (UK)
@garstonite - His first name was Samuel (Samuel CHERY) and we believe he was born in Bern canton in 1692 - although this date maybe unreliable.  As a French Huguenot we think he was unlikely to ever be a Swiss citizen as he married in Ludweiler (now in Saarland, Germany) in 1717.  Many Huguenots were expelled from Bern canton in 1690s.