Lavertezzo Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lavertezzo 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
Lavertezzo is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. This municipality consists of the Lavertezzo Piano in the Magadino valley (village sections of Riazzino, Montedato, and Bugaro) and the village of Lavertezzo in the Verzasca valley (with Aquino, Rancone Sambugaro hamlets). Lavertezzo has an area of 58.11 km² (22.44 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 1.2% - agricultural purposes
 * 50.5% - forested
 * 0.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.7% - rivers & lakes
 * 39.3% - non-productive

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Lavertezzo can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lavertezzo 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)