Melano Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Melano 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 Melano is in the Lugano district and the Ticino canton. It is located at the foot of Monte Generoso on the eastern shore of Lake Lugano. Melano (as of 1997) had an area of 4.57 km² (1.76 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 4.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 73.9% - forested
 * 16.3% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 5.7% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Melano can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Melano 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)