San Nazzaro Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to San Nazzaro 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 former municipality of San Nazzaro is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. It is located in the middle of the Gambarogno Riviera. San Nazzaro included the Casenzano, Taverna and Vairano hamlets. San Nazzaro has an area of 5.53 km² (2.14 square miles). The land use is divided up as follows:
 * 11.8% - agricultural purposes
 * 75.8% - forested
 * 12.1% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.8% - rivers & lakes
 * 4.3% - non-productive

History
The municipality of San Nazzaro was created in 1929 from the merger of the municipalities of Vairano (a municipality before 1670) and Casenzano (established in 1803).

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

The 1808 Ticino census for San Nazzaro was divided into fracions:
 * Vairano can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in San Nazzaro 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)