Now I'm confused.

On both entries for this guy, one entry has his year of birth as 1885, the other as 1884. My guy was born in 1890.

Could this still be the same guy? Could he have had a reason to add 5 years to his age, perhaps to get on the ship alone or something?

Ptimber thanks!

I had actually seen this already but the misspelled town name threw me off.

Do you know of anywhere online I can find his parent's info for free?

Need information on any Toppeta or Annunziata you have from Penne, Italy.

Vincenzo Toppeta (name changed to James Topeka at Ellis Island) was born April 9, 1890 in Penne. Immigrated to the US and ended up in West Virginia where he died in 1957 (not sure what ship he came over on yet and don't know ...