Vogorno Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Vogorno 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 village of Vogorno is located above the Lago di Vogorno reservoir (formed by the Verzasca Dam). Vogorno has an area of 23.88 km² (9.22 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.6% - agricultural purposes
 * 59.5% - forested
 * 1.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 3.0% - rivers & lakes
 * 22.8% - non-productive

History
Vorgorno is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. Vogorno merged into a new municipality of Verzasca on 17 October 2020. Other former municipalities merged include:
 * Brione (Verzasca)
 * Corippo
 * Frasco
 * Sonogno

The population history of Vogorno is: 1596 - 600 inhabitants 1850 - 658 inhabitants 1900 - 661 inhabitants 1950 - 364 inhabitants 1970 - 252 inhabitants 1990 - 268 inhabitants 2000 - 304 inhabitants 2010 - 283 inhabitants 2019 - 270 inhabitants

In 1235, the Church of Saint-Barthélemy (mother church of the valley) was erected. It was transformed several times (last in 1999-20001). This was the parish church until 1952 when it was replaced by the Saint-Antoine church (built in 1626). Per 2000 Census, 85.2% were Roman Catholic and 6.6% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Vogorno can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Vogorno 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)