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Names in the register

Bon N

1 archival unit in this register name Bon N. 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.

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AHN, Inquisición, 1707, Exp. 12Archivo Histórico Nacional1707

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.