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Mining towns in western Zacatecas and adjacent regions where documented Sephardic family networks overlap.

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February 21, 2026 — Work is currently underway to identify and record the locations of genealogical materials within Inquisition-era archives held in Mexico. These references are being documented to enable public access, citation, and future research, and to support transparency around source locations used across the site. Judaizante Records (518/518 recorded) Judaizantes Records (56/56 recorded) Judio Records (146/146 recorded) Judios Records (52/52 recorded) Relajado Records (43/43 recorded) Moises Records (94/94 recorded) Total indexed Inquisition records: 904 The database has been updated with additional members of the tightly interconnected founding families of Zacatecas. These entries illustrate the extensive endogamy that shaped the region’s early elite society, reinforcing kinship bonds across key mining settlements and colonial administrative centers. Total documented individuals in this endogamous network is now: 13. Confirmed Sephardic ancestry entries: 10. Entries with documented Inquisition trials: 1.

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