Brontallo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Brontallo 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 Brontallo is in the Vallemaggia district and the Ticino canton. It is located on the right side of the valley at an elevation of 716 m (2,349 ft). Brontallo (as of 1997) had an area of 10.46 km² (4.04 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 1.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 57.4% - forested
 * 0.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.1% - rivers or lakes
 * 36.4% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Brontallo can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Brontallo 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)