Names in the register
Cortés
4 archival units in this register name Cortés. 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.
| Reference | Archive | Date |
|---|---|---|
| AHN, Inquisición, 1708, Exp. 2 | Archivo Histórico Nacional | — |
| AHN, Inquisición, 1708, Exp. 20 | Archivo Histórico Nacional | — |
| AHN, Inquisición, 1711, Exp. 11 | Archivo Histórico Nacional | — |
| AHN, Inquisición, 1711, Exp. 9 | Archivo Histórico Nacional | — |
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.