Lugano Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Lugano 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 city and municipality of Lugano is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is the capital of the Lugano district, the largest city of Ticino canton, and the ninth largest Swiss city. It is located at the bay of Lugano on Lake Lugano. The area of Lugano has grown with multiple mergers of other municipalities.
 * 1972 - Brè-Aldesago and Castagnola were added
 * 2004 - Breganzona, Cureggia , Davesco-Soragno , Gandria , Pambio-Noranco ,Pazzallo , Pregassona and Viganello were added
 * 2008 - Barbengo, Carabbia and Villa Luganese were added
 * 2013 - Bogno, Cadro , Carona , Certara , Cimadera , Sonvico and Valcollain were added

Lugano has an area of 32.09 km² (12.39 square miles). The land use (1997) was divided up as follows:
 * 10.1% - agricultural purposes
 * 21.0% - forested
 * 14.0% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 0.1% - rivers & lakes
 * 0.4% - non-productive

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Lugano can be accessed here.

The 1837 census for the municipality of Lugano has been indexed and can be accessed here. The browsable images for the 1837 census can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Lugano 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)