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Names in the register

Cardoso

8 archival units in this register name Cardoso. 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
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/00202Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/00477Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/02228Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/05745Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/07764Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/08017/1Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/10209Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/17806Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1780

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.