Fusio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Fusio 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 Fusio is in the Vallemaggia district and the Ticino canton. It is located at the upper part of the Lavizzara Valley at an elevation of 1,289 m (4,229 ft). Fusio (as of 1997) had an area of 60.78 km² (23.47 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 1.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 19.7% - forested
 * 0.7% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 4.2% - rivers or lakes
 * 56.3% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Fusio can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Fusio 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)