Names in the register
Pedrarias
2 archival units in this register name Pedrarias. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AGI, PANAMA 61 N.7 | Archivo General de Indias | — |
| AGI, PATRONATO 26 R.7 | Archivo General de Indias | — |
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.