Thank you so much for all the information and work you put into helping me locate records on my Great Grandfather Ermenegildo Sabbatini. My father had once told me his grandfathers name was spelled Erman Gildo before he settled on Erman Guido. You figuring out it was one name was so helpful! My family did settle in Ladd and Springvalley Illinois. It HAS to be the same person!!!
I am going to have to contact the Bureau County for more records before I try and contact anyone in Italy. I do believe that the Ellis Island record for Sabatini,Egidia 1893 33 1860 is my Great Great Grandfather Egidio. If you look at it, it says he/she was a Masonary worker, which not many women were back then. Plus it looks like an O at the end of the name and not an A. I don't know how someone thought that was an A!
YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!
Thanks for everything!!!!

Kathy