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 Havana in 1745, claiming his ancestors were originally from Carmona, the town in Seville where the Sephardic Cansinos settled after the Reconquista. The common origin was further confirmed by DNA and the coat of arms that a Diego Cansino in Puebla de los Ángeles (near Tlaxcala) received in the mid 1500s from the Spanish crown (attached to this post), almost identical to the coat of arms of the Sephardic Cansinos.The second converso line emerged, unexpectedly, on my paternal grandmother´s side in the town of Guadalupe (Spain). Once again, as I reached the early 1800s, I came across another great grandmother twice removed whose name was Isidora García de la Caballería. I immediately recognized the surname "de la Caballería", adopted by some members of converted Ha-Levi´s. I am still working my way back to understand the origins of this branch. A third converso line came from my paternal grandfather and his great grandfather, an apothecary called Dionisio León Gómez de Alarcón (León was his middle name), born in 1798. Dionisio had engraved in his apothecary seal a six pointed star. As I began tracing his line, it took me to the towns of Osuna and Marchena, in the province of Seville. Dionisio descended from a woman called Inés de Herrera, born in Marchena in the 1650s. The fact that several Herreras from Marchena were tried by the Inquisition of "judaizing" and we have matches that descend from Abraham de Marchena Carilho leads me to believe our Inés de Herrera may have been related to the Marchenas, though I am still searching.It is too bad that Spaniards have so little interest in genealogy, never mind their potential converso/Jewish ancestry, because I do not believe for one moment that my family tree is an exception. I keep wondering, as I have for a very long time, how many Jews were actually living in Spain before the expulsion, and how many had converted and stayed.