Hi Ricky
It looks as if your great-grandfather Gerardo Russo (b. 1875) travelled to New York in 1907. Was he intending to emigrate, but then returned to Italy?
Is that his son Paolo Russo age 14 with him?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JXX6-VYH?treeref=PWPN-S5X&lang=en
They were travelling to relatives (a cousin) called Vitantonio Palmisano at Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn
It looks as if Vito Antonio Palmisano was born in Puglia (Alberobello) about 1884.
He immigrated in 1905.
When Alessandro Russo emigrated to New York in 1911, he was also going to the same address - Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn.
Hi Neale,
about the traveller you're right, it's exactly him, Gerardo. The age, everything matches. But Francesco Paolo was his younger brother:
https://antenati.cultura.gov.it/ark:/12657/an_ud2553324 In 1879 was born a first Francesco Paolo, but he died after 3 months (Gerardo, too, had an older brother born 1871 and died 1872). And even the occupation matches, their father Pietro was actually a tanner. About Vitantonio Palmisano, for sure he wasn't any cousin, I got 5 generations before them data, so I'm sure, he could be a friend, anyway. This family name is also enough common in that area.
About Francesco Paolo I don't have the exact death date, anyway surely he came back from the U.S.A, because he was Carabiniere in Italy, then a pleasant/gardener on a judge's estate; he remained a bachelor all his life. In the arrival document the age was 24, so would match exactly.
Gerardo definitely stayed in the US for a couple of years, because he married in 1903 Vita di Mira (Ginosa 1870-Ginosa 1954), already a widow since 1900 and with at least 3 children, after what they had: son Pietro (1903-1988, also a Carabiniere), Emilia (1905-1991), and Domenico (1913-2010), my grandfather. All of them married, had children, and to this days their descendents live, I met even a few of them, when I was still in Italy.
So, if Alessandro travelled to the US 1911, but not mentioning them is the documents, I think both of them should have already returned to Italy.
P.S. at the end of the page, you find even that wife and son of this Vitantonio were there to join him. They were from Ginosa, too, but even if we don't know the family name of this Felicia, there wasn't any Felicia in the family. So they maybe faked a relativeness, that wasn't real.
