Broglio Parish, Ticino, Switzerland Genealogy

Description: Guide to Broglio 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 Broglio is in the Vallemaggia district and the Ticino canton. It is located on the road to Fusio (about 35 km from Locarno). Broglio (as of 1997) had an area of 12.94 km² (5.00 square miles). The land use was divided up as follows:
 * 2.0% - agricultural purposes
 * 53.2% - forested
 * 1.2% - settled (buildings or roads)
 * 1.9% - rivers or lakes
 * 41.2% - unproductive land

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

The 1808 Ticino census for Broglio can be accessed here.

Surnames
The following surnames held citizenship in Broglio 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)