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Names in the register

Amigo

4 archival units in this register name Amigo. That means a person of this name appears in the document — nothing more. Whether they are your ancestor, and whether they were Jewish or converso, is what the document itself has to answer.

ReferenceArchiveDate
ARCHV, Registro de Ejecutorias, caja 27, 43Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid1490
ARCHV, Registro de Ejecutorias, caja 41, 2Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid1491
ARCHV, Registro de Ejecutorias, caja 46, 45Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid1492
ARCHV, Pergaminos, carpeta 13, 11Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid1479

There is no official list of Sephardic surnames, and there never was. The commonest names in Portuguese Inquisition trials are Rodrigues, Lopes and Fernandes — a fact about Portuguese demography, not about Jewish descent.