as of 25 September 1998

Are you looking for the village of your ancestor?

There are roughly 5100 Swiss towns & villages
listed below along with their postal code and canton.

There are a variety of ways to view the data:

!!WARNING!! - the datafile is rather large, 200KB, so I would 
recommend after downloading, that you save the file either as
an HTML file (viewable with your webbrowser) or as a text file
(but no external links - not many really).

1) from your web browser (194 KB) 
2) download an html file, (194 KB) just use the command File Save As after the page has loaded
3) download a text file (193 KB)
4) download a MS Excel spreadsheet file (763 KB)

Another website that lists the villages in Switzerland (though not all in one shot) 
is Global Gazetteer - for Switzerland.