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Re: Last name Cantu started in Italy.
After doing an extensive research, I found the last name Cantua or Cantu originally in my family tree, we are from Sonora, and the oldest family branch in Mexico, and probably the only one known to have immigrated to Mexico during the colonial times are the descendants of Giuseppe Cantu who was born in Lombardy Italy , and married Maria del Rio De La Cerda, there is a high change that the Cantu family was Jewish since del Rio was a Jewish family, and the descendants of Giuseppe all married known Crypto Jews of Monterrey, all the original families Treviño, Gonzales, Morales, De La Garza, Cantu, Garcia, Montemayor, Carbajal, Cantu, Villareal, and others are Jewish ancestry and we are one family, you can find all this information on the web page of the Jewish Genealogy. Shalom brothers

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