Hey - thank you for accepting me into this group. I have posted in a few other places, and thought that posting here might be helpful as well. Apologies if you have seen this already. I am currently in the process of investigating my Sephardic heritage and **I am wondering if there is anything more I can do beyond what I am currently doing?** So far, I have spoken to DNA matches that have indicated to me that we have Sephardic Jewish ancestry in my family - specifically coming from my family in Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel in the Azores. According to the cousin matches that I’ve spoken to, some of them are in Brazil, and some of them are in Amsterdam/Germany but when I have asked for specific names and dates, they have stopped responding - which is fair, I know people have lives. It seems like it is from my paternal grandfather’s side of the family (specifically his mom), which is the line that I have been having the most difficulty tracing. And the one that he liked to speak about the least as he had a strained relationship with her. I’ve attached a picture of the relevant branch of the tree I am researching, with the information I have so far.I had always heard rumours from my cousins and uncles growing up that our family was Jewish but had to hide or abandon it while they were in Portugal. I had thought those were just rumours or that our Jewish ancestry would have been around the time of the Inquisition. Speaking to these cousins from my matches though, it seems that it may be more recent. But it has been so hard to trace because of how large the families are and how scattered everyone is. And that, while I am pretty sure my grandfather was Catholic, it sounds like his parents and his uncles/brothers may not have been and that some may have left to be able to have the freedom to practice their faith. In an effort to verify these claims, I have located the government records of the ancestors that do exist in the Azores archives, I am ordering them to be scanned and asking a Portuguese geneaologist for help translating the documents. This is mostly birth/death info and death inventories for my great grandfather and great grandmother. Once I have this information, I am also asking his help in seeing if they are in the Church records, but don't know how helpful those would be if the family was hiding their Jewish practices? Would it just be a matter of going back until I find something? My intention was to just continue tracking backwards and seeing what I can learn that way. I wanted to start checking the archives in Brazil/some of the other places we have family, but I don’t even know who I would be looking for as a lot of my family names are quite common among Portuguese people in general (Matos, Correia, Pacheco, Pereira, Almeida, Ferreira). I have also DNA tested, and uploaded to all the relevant places but results are not consistent across all platforms, and I don’t think there’s any one marker of Sephardic DNA heritage although I know that’s debated. I have a large Iberian percentage, a North African percentage consistent across all of the different platforms, and I have a lot of matches with Ashkenazi percentages that match my father’s and cousin’s percentages (they’re just very low ~ 1-3%). **So as I said**, I am just wondering if there is any other research or work I can be doing to figure this out, or if I just have to continue with what I am doing and see what happens. Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope you all have good days/nights.