Minusio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Minusio 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 Minusio is in the Locarno district and the Ticino canton. It is located east of Locamo on the shores of Lake Maggiore. Paradiso includes the village of Minusio and sections of Ceresole, Mappo and Mondacce hamlets. Paradiso (as of 2004/2009 survey) had an area of 5.86 km² (2.26 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 8.9% - agricultural purposes
 * 55.2% - forested
 * 33.9% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 2.0% - rivers or lakes

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Minusio can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Minusio 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)