Magadino Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Magadino 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.

Church Records
The parish of Magadino was established in 1847 from the parish of Vira.

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Magadino was listed with Vira (Gambarogno); Vira's census can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Vira 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)