Personico, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Personico, 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
As of 1997, Personico has an area of 39.04 square kilometers (15.07 sq mi). The municipality is situated in the Leventina district, on the left side of the lower Leventina valley.

The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.4% - agricultural purposes
 * 63.7% - forested
 * 1.6% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.0% - rivers or lakes
 * 28.9% - unproductive land

History
The first mention of Personico was in 1227 as Prexonego.

The population history of Personico is: 1574 - 302 hearths 1682 - 370 inhabitants 1799 - 203 inhabitants 1850 - 229 inhabitants 1900 - 215 inhabitants 1950 - 220 inhabitants 1980 - 492 inhabitants 2000 - 1158 inhabitants

During the Middle Ages, it belonged to the Vicinanza of Giornico. The village church of SS. Nazario e Celso was first mentioned in 1256. It belonged to the parish of Biasca until 1570, when it became an independent parish church. The church was restored in 1926 and again in 1978-79. Between 1736-1869 there was in a glass factory in operation in the village. A subsidiary factory was built in 1782 in Lodrino.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Personico can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Personico 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)