Sorengo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Sorengo 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 municipality of Sorengo is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located on a hill between the Lake Muzzano and Lake Lugano. The Sorengo municipality includes the hamlets of Cremignone and Cortivallo and the village of Sorengo. Sorengo had an area (as of 1997) of 0.85 km² (0.33 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 65.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 15.3% - forested
 * 58.8% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.4% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Sorengo can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Sorengo prior to 1900, 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)