When you are born in Switzerland, you are a citizen of your administrative district and of your canton well before being a Swiss citizen. This particular right to citizenship will be inherited by your descendants, wherever they are born. For instance, if your family has lived in Geneva for more than five generations, you may still be a citizen of a district in far-away Aargau, where no member of your family has set foot for a hundred years. The family registrar of the district will keep registering your children's births, even if you have never been there. Some families may even have several districts of origin.
Civil state is the job of the districts .
Each canton has its own specific civil administration. However, since the 1874 Constitution, basic rules have been set by the Confederation. Since 1928 Switzerland has had a generalized system of family registrars, one for each district. In some cantons, the archives own copies of the family registrars located the districts under their administration, which generally covers a period beyond 50 years. Before undertaking any research in Switzerland, you should make sure that you know the canton and district of origin of your family.