This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Abraham, Abrahantes, Heisler-Samuels, Obejas, Kahn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kRC.2ACE/4718.3 Message Board Post: Look at http://www.suegersten.com/cuba/stone_list.htm where you will see the Hebrew Cemeteries of Cuba and Jewish families burried there. Also look at www.Sephardim.com where you will find: Abraham(*)(19a)(22)(25)(29)(35)(40) and Abrantes de(8) etc..... Even in this site, look up "Sephardic" and you will find a world of information. As you may know, the Spanish Inquisition displaced many Jews from Spain and Portugal and many fled to other lands especially to Canary Islands and then Cuba. In the book "Jews of the Canary Islands" p. 216 says "Miguel took the name of Joseph when he embraced Judaism, and was known as Joseph da Costa Alvarenga...wife was Abigail de Payba...among his descendants were branches of the Treves and Furtado families...Major G.ABRAHAM of the League of Nations." Other interesting books: The last Minyan in Havana by Betty Heisler-Samuels , "Days of Awe" by Achy Obejas and "The History of the Jewish Colony in Cuba" by Jeffrey A. Kahn