Swiss Surnames: A Complete Register, hard cover books
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***** Only one set available *****
3 volume set, 768pp, 704pp, & 640pp 1995 (1989).
These volumes contain every surname now found in Switzerland, a total of 48,500 surnames arranged alpahbetically, together with information giving exactly in which Heimat or community the surnames enjoy hereditary rights of citizenship. Roughly half of these surnames were established in Switzerland priorto 1800 (often in the Middle Ages); the other 24,500 surnames have settled in Switzerland since 1800.
