Dear Swiss genealogy friends: I have updated my "village listing" for all the communities in Switzerland. No, I did not add any new villages, the webpage was not working correctly after the Geocities to Yahoo!Geocities switchover last summer. This is an small sample of what you will find: CH postal code ...........canton abbreviation .....................village name 8355 TG Aadorf 5000 AG Aarau 5001 AG Aarau 5004 AG Aarau 3270 BE Aarberg 4663 AG Aarburg 4912 BE Aarwangen 8607 ZH Aathal-Seegräben 8522 TG Aawangen Anyway, you have several options for either viewing or downloading the data. Start at: http://www.geocities.com/swissschmutz/chpostal.html Which offers basically 3 choices: 1) html format (195 KB) 2) text format (194 KB) - it will show as a webpage, but the hyperlinks have been removed 3) MS Excel spreadsheet format (763 KB) The files will take a minute or 2 to load. Be patient. If you want to jump right to the list to be viewed on your browser, go to: http://www.geocities.com/swissschmutz/chpostal-count.html Once you have found your village and the associated canton, then jump over to SwissGen's LDS village listing for parish and other records: http://swiss.genealogy.net/ldsloc-m.htm best wishes in your continued research, Dave Schmutz SwissGen volunteer