Hello My son just stumbled upon this website when looking for some of our family history. Joseph and Carolina Orso were my paternal great Aunt and Uncle. "Lina" was my grandfather's (Desiderio Perino) sister. We have also been looking for information on when and how they arrived in America...
During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976, the U.S. was the largest single recipient of Italian immigrants in the world. However, their impact was not as great as countries like Argentina and Brazil. That was due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of immigrant...
