Berzona Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Berzona 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
Berzona is a village and former municipality in the district of Lacarno, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. The village in the Onsernone Valley, in a hollow on the hillside surrounded by chestnut forests on the highway to Vergeletto and Comologno, about 15 km northwest of Locarno. Berzona also consisted of the Seghelina fraction directly on the cantonal road that runs below the main village.

In 2001, a new and larger municipality Isorno was formed when the following municipalities merged:
 * Auressio
 * Berzona
 * Loco

In 2016, Isorno was one of the municipalities that merged into Onsernone municipality.

History
The first mention of Berzona was in 1265 as Berzona.

The population history of Auressio is: 1795 - 240 inhabitants 1808 - 273 inhabitants 1850 - 198 inhabitants 1900 - 164 inhabitants 1950 - 76 inhabitants 1960 - 52 inhabitants 2000 - 71 inhabitants

The church of Saint Antonio Abate was consecrated in 1526 and a separate parish was founded in 1792 after the division from Loco.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Berzona can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Berzona 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)