Perhaps. AFAIKT, "Peranzules" is a contraction of "Pedro Anzurez". It could be that the Anzurez and Peranzules names swap around. I'll have to get the church records from this little village in Vizcaya to trace things in a little more detail before I'll be able to draw any conclusions. -- Donald R. Newcomb In article <Pine.A41.4.21.0101100936230.91340- 100000@dante28.u.washington.edu>, "M. Kearns" <siguiria@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > I am currently researching the last name of an ancestor PERANA, which > apparently comes from the city of Valladolid. I have also seen it on a > Genealogy site for a Basque surname. Maybe the two are related. The > surname PERANA also exists in small numbers in Italy. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/