Sonvico Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sonvico 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 former municipality of Sonvico is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located at the northern edge of the Cassarate valley and included the Dino hamlet. Sonvico had an area of 11.1 km² (4.3 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 12.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 80.1% - forested
 * 6.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.2% - rivers or lakes
 * 3.8% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Sonvico can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sonvico prior to 1900, 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)