Prato-Sornico Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Prato-Sornico Parish, Ticino, Switzerland, ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, parish census, civil census, family history, area history, and military records.



Geography
The municipality of Prato-Sornico is in the Vallemaggia district and the Ticino canton. It contains the villages of Prato and Sornico which were previously separate municipalities. They merged into Prato-Sornico in 1864. It is located 37 km (23 mi) from Locarno. The village includes the peak of Pizzo Campo Tencia (3,071 m (10,075 ft) high). Prato-Sornico (as of 1997) had an area of 38.34 km² (14.80 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 0.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 29.9% - forested
 * 0.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.9% - rivers or lakes
 * 54.0% - unproductive land

Census
(See here for information regarding Ticino census records.)

The 1808 Ticino census for Prato-Sornico was divided into fractions:
 * Prato can be accessed here.
 * Sornico can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Prato-Sornico prior to 1875, along with any known soprannomi. For more information about soprannomi, click here.

Related sources
The town's website (in Italian) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Ticino

Societies
Società Genealogica della Svizzera Italiana (SGSI)