Paradiso, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Paradiso, 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 Paradiso is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located on the shore of Lake Lugano and is surrounded by the city of Lugano but is administratively independent. Paradiso includes the village of Paradiso and sections of Calprino, Guidino, Fontana and Morchino. Paradiso (as of 1997) had an area of 0.89 km² (0.34 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 37.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 36.0% - forested
 * 58.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.1% - rivers or lakes

History
Paradiso was known as Calprino until the mid-1800s, when it went by Paradiso. It was officially named Paradiso in 1929.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Paradiso can be accessed here (called Calprino in the census).

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Paradiso 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)