Names in the register
Vaz
6 archival units in this register name Vaz. 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-IC/025/00103 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | 1584 |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/00385 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/00786 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/01023 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/11650 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
| PT/TT/TSO-IL/028/12037 | Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo | — |
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. Why the surname is not the evidence.