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From: (by way of Ed Elizondo <>)
Subject: [CUBA-L] Canary Islands- Hernandez
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 07:08:35 -0800

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Surnames: Hernandez, Borges
Classification: Query

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/59.139.1796.3.1

Message Board Post:

As I understand it, many (most?) of the names that end in "ez" that
originally immigrated from Portugal/Spain to the Canary Islands were
Sephardic Jews that were being persecuted and made to convert to Catholicism.

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