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Names in the register

Dias

6 archival units in this register name Dias. 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/028/04787Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/06580Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/07556Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/13107Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/18020Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1802
PT/TT/TSO/IP/002/0008/00002Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo1544

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.