Are you sure joseph's grandfather was named Giovanni, and not Paolo? on my family tree I have:

Josephine catherine sprofera, born in manhattan 2/11/1919 daughter of

Joseph john sprofera(born in sicily 1880 died in astoria 1963) and maria (mary/mamie) concetta cannaracioulo(1886-1972)

joseph john ...

Hi everyone, I hope you are still active on this board I see that it has been some time. I am excited to find you, I believe you all are my distant relatives! I am a descendant of the second wave of Sprofera's to arrive in NYC(1890). I have seen the name in some historic documents as Schrofera ...