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I started working on my family tree in 2014, after my father´s passing. I was not looking for any Jewish ancestry to begin with, although I suspected there was a possibility I may come across a converso along the way. The first I found was a Cansino, my Cuban great grandmother twice removed, born in the early 1800s. Her grandfather was an Andrés Cansino who had traveled from Tlaxcala (Mexico) to H...

Looking for information on a Sephardic family with the last name Pedro, living in Poland until moving to England in the 1900s. They are somehow related to the Cansinos. The family tree of this Pedro family goes back to a **[Chaim Eliezer (Luzer) Pedro](https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/120463830/person/382010248832/facts)****Has anyone come across with the last name Pedro among Seph...

After getting in trouble for trading with foreign nations in the town of Remedios around 1795, my Cuban-Mexican Felipe Cansino ends up marrying a woman named Inés Sánchez Ricardo, in turn descended from a Patricio Ricardo born c. 1650 who settled to Cuba, I am not sure if as part of the larger group of men who came from Jamaica and settled in the city of Holguín. I am trying to learn more about th...

We finally received the long-awaited Y-DNA results for the Cansinos from Cuba (and Mexico), and just as expected, we match our Cansino cousins in the Diaspora. Both branches share in turn another interesting match I already posted about on this group, a man by the name of Gonzalo de Arboleda, tried by the Inquisition for "judaizing". One unexpected surprise was to find among our matches a member o...

An unexpected discovery in Google Books. I tried searching for a Latinized version of the name Cansino (Canzinium) and other variants, and came across a compilation of jurisprudence from Florence published in the 1700s. Salvador Cansino is mentioned in connection to certain business loans and maritime operations (I have not attempted to translate it yet). Maybe it is a potential source of informat...

In case anyone is interested, a link to the book by Eberhard Crailsheim "The Spanish Connection: French and Flemish Merchant Networks in Seville (1570–1650)"https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31969/1/620578.pdf

Another mystery connection with the Cansino family, this time in New Mexico. Our common matches lead invariably to the couple formed by Cristóbal de Baca and Ana Ortiz. Cristóbal is said to have descended from a Juan de Vaca, from the Coronado expedition. The authorities were aware of the collusion between Jews and natives. A Juan de Baeza (also known as Juan de Baca) was prosecuted by the Inquisi...

In my search for the Cansinos, I inevitably came across with the monumental work of Professor Juan Gil, "Los conversos y la Inquisición sevillana", published in 8 volumes. I recently purchased the entire collection, and found some familiar Sephardic surnames in the onomastic index. One is Sarfaty, which is linked to the branch we match via DNA in the Senior Coronel family. Sarfaty appears as Cerf...

Can someone help me identify the names of the parties involved in this ketubah? Bride and groom, witnesses, etc? If it is not too much trouble. Thanks in advance.

Another Cansino mystery surrounding a Y-DNA match that takes us to Chile, more specifically to a mountainous and isolated region called Maule, with a rich wine producing tradition. The most distant ancestor on this Y-DNA line is Manuel Leyton de Mello, married to Violante Nunes de Saa, from Coimbra. I keep coming across the Nunes de Saa family. This is what I could find on Familysearch.org (not su...

I am aware of the skepticism regarding genetic genealogy, but I must say it has provided me with a wealth of information (or maybe I should say "hints") regarding the Cansino family. Today, going over my cousin´s Y-DNA matches, I came across one from Spain whose oldest documented ancestor was a Gonzalo de Arboleda, born circa 1488 and burnt in effigy for "judaizing". The Arboledas were related by ...

A question about Sephardic Y-DNA. My dear, long-lost Cansino cousin could not understand why many of his Y-DNA matches traced their origins back to men from the British Isles with Anglo sounding names which he did not recognize. I told him about a geneticist who mentioned that Sephardic Y-DNA often comes from non-Jewish haplogroups. Could it be that a man from Asturias converted to Judaism and mar...

I am researching my paternal line, settled in a small village near Trujillo (Cáceres, Spain), with the last name Amarilla. I have only been able to find one reference to this family:"Los **judíos** estaban también en los alrededores de la Plaza: los **Amarilla**, **judíos** notables de **Cáceres**, habían alquilado casa fuera de la judería."The Amarilla family is described as one of "notable Jews...

This is a very special night for me. After almost a decade of searching and speculating, I confirmed with DNA what I had long suspected and may never be able to document (though I will keep trying): that my Cancinos from Cuba (possibly via Mexico) were related by blood to the Cansinos in the Diaspora. That the family split into several branches around the time of the expulsion (Pedro Fernandez Can...

Does anyone have access to this book? Genealogia hebraicaPortugal e Gibraltar, sécs. XVII a XX. (Beniso-Fresco)By [José Maria Abecassis](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sxsrf=APwXEddb271Y9n7TG0ji4W_vKhxDLoBaAA%3A1683045555781&q=inauthor%3A%22Jos%C3%A9%20Maria%20Abecassis%22&tbm=bks) · 1990

Good evening from New Jersey. I have two questions maybe someone can help me answer: 1. Does anyone know the origin of the DelMar/Del Mar family, settled in Livorno until the late 1700s or where to look for the origin of old Sephardic families in general? 1. What Jewish/Sephardic archives can be visited in England?

Good afternoon from New Jersey. I am battling to figure out my mother´s Sephardic ancestry. The most recent Jewish last name is that of her great great great grandmother, Cansino. A woman born in the early 1800s, possibly in Mexico. On the other hand, several of my mother´s matches can be traced back to an ancestral couple, formed by Jacob Nunez Vas and Simcha Seneor Coronel, who lived in Leghorn ...

For those interested in doing research in Italy.

Another website that may be of interest to the group: Persée, an open access digital library of French-language scholarly journals, established by the Ministry of National Education of France. I have found a few interesting articles on the subject of my research.

I would be happy to hear your thoughts on the following matter: the etymology of Cansino. (This is all speculation on my part, so thank you for bearing with me.) "Cansino" resembles other Sephardic names such as "Almosnino" or "Sonsino". The root of the latter would be "almosn" and "sons", and the sufix "ino" would have been added to "sephardize" them. If this theory were correct, then the Hebrew ...

I am grateful to David Mendoza for accepting me into this group. I am originally from Spain but currently reside in the United States. I have been researching the Cansino* family for some time now, both for genealogical and historical purposes. I am interested in documenting and understanding the diaspora of the Jewish and the converted branches of this particular family, which proved to be partic...