Tegna Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Tegna 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 Tegna is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton and located on the plateau at the confluence of the Melezza and the Maggia. The hamlet of Ponte Brolla is also included. Tegna has an area of 2.9 km² (1.1 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 11.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 59.5% - forested
 * 16.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.8% - rivers & lakes
 * 17.6% - non-productive

History
Tegna is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. Tegna merged into a new municipality of Terre di Pedemonte on 14 April 2013. Other former municipalities merged include:
 * Cavigliano
 * Verscio

The population history of Tegna is: 1591 - 200 inhabitants 1692 - 55 inhabitants 1801 - 196 inhabitants 1850 - 240 inhabitants 1900 - 225 inhabitants 1910 - 322 inhabitants 1950 - 393 inhabitants 1970 - 412 inhabitants 1990 - 616 inhabitants 2000 - 661 inhabitants

Per the 2000 census:
 * 69.7% were Roman Catholic
 * 12.7% were Swiss Reformed Church
 * 12.4% belong to another church

The Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church (14th century) separated from the mother church of Saint-Fidèle de Verscio in 1692. The Madonna delle Scalate or Sainte-Anne (17th century) is located above the village.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Tegna can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Tegna 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)