Niva (Vallemaggia) Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Niva (Vallemaggia) 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
Campo (Vallemaggia) is the last and highest municipality of the Valle di Campo at 42 km from Locarno and includes five districts that lie on wide terraces and are independent from each other by considerable distances and differences in altitude: Cimalmotto (1405 m), Campo (1320 m), Piano di Campo (1187 m), Seccada (1094 m) and Niva (955 m). Hostile geological conditions, exacerbated by careless logging and timber rafting, increased the susceptibility to landslides and rockslides in the area from the 18th century to the present.

History
Cimalmotto and Niva divided from Campo's church in 1767 to form an independent parish. Niva and Cimalmotto merged in the new municipality of Campo (Vallemaggia), date not mentioned.

Locations within Niva
See Campo (Vallemaggia) for more information.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Niva can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Niva 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)