I am sitting here with Giovanni Ruggiero's daughter and I just discovered that Emilio (her uncle) was apparently adopted! She never knew! I found the immigration manifest. Can anyone read the surname, if you have access to ancestry.com? ... If not, I can make a screenshot.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/74 ... _1960-0062
Page 62 of 1199... Line 10
I am looking for his birth record... he was supposedly born on 27 September 1897 in Roseto Valfortore. But apparently was not born with the surname Ruggiero! The surname I believe is on the manifest in the above link on line 10. It says he was a Pupil? Adopted son! The September 1897 Roseto Valfortore births begin on page 3248 of 3291 on familysearch.org... No luck yet! They may also be out of order.
Now it appears that Giovanni Antonio Ruggiero was the eldest biological child of Domenico Ruggiero and Maria Rosa Palumbo. He was born in 1905. Thus, I reckon now that Domenico and Maria Rosa likely were married between 1900 and 1905! Wow!