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.
| Reference | Archive | Date |
|---|---|---|
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/04787 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/06580 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/07556 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/13107 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO/IL/028/18020 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1802 |
| PT/TT/TSO/IP/002/0008/00002 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1544 |
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.