Magadino Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Magadino 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 Magadino is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. It is located on the banks of the Riviera del Gambarogno and includes a nature preserve. Magadino included the Quartino and Orgnana hamlets. Magadino has an area of 7.23 km² (2.79 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 31.5% - agricultural purposes
 * 58.0% - forested
 * 16.5% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.9% - rivers & lakes
 * 1.8% - non-productive

Church Records
The parish of Magadino was established in 1847 from the parish of Vira.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Magadino was listed with Vira (Gambarogno); Vira's census can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Vira 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)