Sonogno Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sonogno 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 village of Sonogno is located in Verzasca valley. The last village on the Verzasca valley paved road is Sonogno. Sonogno has an area of 37.52 km² (14.49 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 27.4% - forested
 * 0.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.0% - rivers & lakes
 * 52.5% - non-productive

History
Sonogno is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. Sonogno merged into a new municipality of Verzasca on 17 October 2020. Other former municipalities merged include:
 * Brione (Verzasca)
 * Corippo
 * Frasco
 * Vogorno

The population history of Sonogno is: 1596 - 40 inhabitants 1734 - 70 inhabitants 1850 - 334 inhabitants 1900 - 293 inhabitants 1950 - 151 inhabitants 2000 - 86 inhabitants 2010 - 93 inhabitants 2019 - 82 inhabitants

Until 1518, Sonogno depended on the Vogorno parish. In I854, the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette parish church of 1519 was rebuilt.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Sonogno can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sonogno 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)