Hi. Regarding the Italiano's in New Orleans -
My great-great grandparents came to N.O. from Palazzo Adriano, Palermo, Sicily. They were Francesco (Frank) and Elisabetta (Elisabeth) Macaluso. (Italian women usually kept their surnames after marriage). He arrived here in 1890, she came later with two of their children in 1894 (on the Kronprinz Friedrich Wilhelm.) He was a shoemaker and they settled into New Orleans and we've apparently been here ever since.
I'm trying to research their roots in Sicily.
Maybe we're related??????