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What surnames are you interested in researching?: Sanoja (and spelling variants)
Obediente and other variants (Obadi, Obadia, Abadi).

What countries and other locations are you interested in researching?: Venezuela, Spain, Holland (and maybe Central Africa?).

What is your level of genealogy knowledge?: Beginning Family History Researcher

Do you have a genealogy website or blog or belong to a Genealogy Society?: psanoja.blogspot.com/2011/04/sobre-mi-identidad-y-otros-pensamientos.html

Posted on December 29, 2011 at 9:43am 0 Comments 0 Likes

Digging into the Ellis Island passenger registry, I came across someone who bore my name, Pedro Sanoja, and visited the United States in 1919.

The Ellis Island passenger registry listed him as Pedro Sanoja, ethnicity:

Venezuela, Spanish-American, only two years old at the time of arrival, and coming from Veracruz, Mexico, in transit to Caracas, Venezuela.

The young Sanoja arrived with his parents, Juan and Matilde Sanoja (34 and 19 years old, respectively) on Oct…