About Us

Our Swiss Roots

Twenty-six cantons, one Confederation, and families in Arizona with roots in nearly all of them.

Kantönli Quiz

How well do you know your cantons?

Ten questions on cantonal coats of arms (Wappen · armoiries · stemma · vopna), maps and dates. No peeking at the animation on our homepage.

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Where Our Members Come From

Our roots reach 20 of Switzerland's 26 cantons.

Every Swiss family has a Bürgerort, its place of origin, passed down through the family name. Here is where our member families' roots are.

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Households per canton

  • Bern
    28
  • Zürich
    18
  • Aargau
    10
  • St. Gallen
    10
  • Genève
    4
  • Vaud
    4
  • Graubünden
    3
  • Luzern
    3
  • Thurgau
    3
  • Basel-Landschaft
    2
  • Basel-Stadt
    2
  • Fribourg
    2
  • Schwyz
    2
  • Appenzell Ausserrhoden
    1
  • Glarus
    1
  • Neuchâtel
    1
  • Obwalden
    1
  • Solothurn
    1
  • Ticino
    1
  • Valais
    1

Still missing from our map

Uri
Nidwalden
Zug
Schaffhausen
Appenzell Innerrhoden
Jura

Is your Bürgerort in one of these cantons? Come fill in our map. Bern leads with 28 families; Zürich, we believe in you.

Counted from the Bürgerort listed by 85 member households in the 2026 Membership Directory. A household with roots in two cantons counts in both.

Find Your Wappen

Where is your family from?

Type your Bürgerort (Heimatort, lieu d'origine, luogo d'attinenza, lieu d'origin) to find your canton and its Wappen.

Place names cover Swiss municipalities from 2010 to 2024, including former ones that have since merged. Moutier moved from Bern to Jura on 1 January 2026.

Coat of arms of Uri

ExampleAltdorf is in the canton of

Uri

1291

joined the Confederation, 735 years ago

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member households share these roots

No member household lists Uri yet. You could be the first to put it on our map.

Help us fill in the map.

Whatever your canton, there's a place for you in the Arizona Swiss Society.

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