I would love to chat about places to see and visit while in Spain/Portugal. Also, looking for family members in Spain with the last name Barbosa, would love to hear from you!

You might be interested to know (if you don't already) that is actually a Sephardic last name. So I bet you will find some interesting history there, if you keep digging!

I'm having a hard time finding much out of my great grandfather who moved to Puerto Rico from Spain, his last name was Barbosa. I know technically, the word Sepharadim means Spaniards. It comes from Sepharad, the Hebrew word for Spain. In practice however, the term Sepharadim refers to Jews of Spanish and Portuguese origin, whose ancestors were expelled from Spain in 1492.

My understanding is that they weren't all kicked out. Just those who refused to convert to Catholicism. So possibly, if it was your grandfather who left Spain, the family could be converso. That would be interesting, don't you think? Not likely that the family would even know that was the case necessarily, but it's a common Sephardim name.