Carona Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Carona 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 Carona is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located near Lake Lugano and is between the San Salvatore and Arbostora mountains. The village of Carona and the Ciona and Torello hamlets are included in this municipality. Carona has an area of 4.8 km² (1.9 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 9.7% - agricultural purposes
 * 84.6% - forested
 * 12.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.3% - non-productive

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Carona can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Carona 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)