Certara Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Certara 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 Certara is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located in the upper Colla valley on the left slope near the Italian border. Certara has an area of 2.7 km² (1.0 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 7.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 81.3% - forested
 * 4.4% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.3% - non-productive

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Certara can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Certara 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)