Tartar, Graubünden, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tartar, Graubünden, 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 Tartar is in the district of Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Tartar is situated on the lower Heinzenberg mountains at an elevation of 994 m (3,261 ft). It includes the haufendorf (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) village of Tartar made up of the sections of Oberschauenberg, Valeina, Pro Biet, and the farmhouse group of Foppa.

Tartar (as of 2006) has an area of 1.6 km² (0.62 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 51.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 38% - forested
 * 8.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.9% - non-productive

History
In 1290-98, Tartar was first mentioned by the name of in Tartere.

Tartar merged into the Cazis municipality on 1 January 2010. Other municipalities merged include:
 * Cazis
 * Portein
 * Präz
 * Sarn

The population history of Tartar is: 1808 - 108 inhabitants 1850 - 170 inhabitants 1900 - 146 inhabitants 1920 - 206 inhabitants 1950 - 188 inhabitants 2000 - 158 inhabitants 2007 - 168 inhabitants

Spiritually, the village belonged to the large parish of Hochrialt (Saint-Jean in Hohenrätien) and Portein after 1505. After the Reformation (1530-1540), an independent parish community began with Sarn and Portein.

Church Records
Tartar belongs to the parish of Sarn. See Sarn for more information.

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

The following censuses are available from FamilySearch for Tartar:
 * 1835
 * 1838
 * 1848
 * 1850
 * 1850, form C

Civil Registration
Civil registration began in 1876.

Duplicate civil registration registers are located at the Graubünden State Archives. The following records are available:
 * Both A and B registers are available through 1916-1917 and are open without restriction.
 * Family registers are available from at latest 1860 through 1910; these records are viewable but require permission to access. For more information, contact the State Archive.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tartar prior to 1875:

Related sources
The town's website (in Romansh and German) can be found here.

Libraries and archives
State Archives of Graubünden

Societies
Rätische Vereinigung für Familienforschung (RVFF)

Società Genealogica della Svizzera italiana (SGSI)