Relatives told me that to incentivize Italian citizens to return to fight in the war they promised them that they would pay for their emigration back to the United States after their service was over. I thought that was just a made up story but then I found the manifest for Rosario's return journey ...

I have a question about orphans. It is said in my family that my great-grandfather was adopted in Caltanissetta, Sicily. He was born in 1878. Is there any way to verify this and discover his genetic parents?