17 January 2018 à 13:09
On October 28, 2017, I gave a lecture in Santa Cruz de Tenerife about the Canary Islands as a destination for Jewish converts and a starting point to America. After an introduction on the importance of the year 1492 for Spain, the Jews, America and the Canary Islands, I focused on the causes of the presence of Judeo-converts in these islands, the persecution that crypto-Jews suffered by the Canarian Inquisition, and in the sources we have to study in a specific way these population groups in the islands and perform their genealogy. The second part of this lecture (Canarias as a starting point to America), I had not the time to explain it, but I put an example of a family from Tenerife that settled in Cuba in the 18th century and has a "Judeoconverso" origin by one of its lines that, thanks to the documents of the Canarian Inquisition, it can be followed in Andalusia until about 1425. This lecture can be read entirely, in Spanish, on the blog of the Sociedad de Estudios Genealógicos y Heráldicos de Canarias, at https://segeheca.blogspot.com.es/2017/11/canarias-destino-de-judeoconversos-y.html. All the best, Fernando González del Campo.
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