Frank, If the entry on Ellis Island makes sense as to the other information provided, you may have just found your ancestor. Ellis Island was not generally staffed with Americans who read and spoke fluent Italian. They often modifed both Surnames and Given Names to "Americanize" the immmigrants. And, if Ellis Island didn't make the change, the public school system took care of the matter. I would urge you to take a look at the actual manifest. Compare information. Ages, City of Origin, that type of thing may help, and the column on the manifest which lists the name of the relative they are planning to stay with in America may confirm your suspicions. I read once that some of the information reported at Ellis Island could be inaccurate. For example, if your relatives may have lived in a small village, left the village and moved to Rome for an opportunity to make more money to pay for steerage, they may have reported Rome as the last place they lived. Rome wouldn't be an untruthful response, but for the family historian it might certainly be a "left curve" in their research. Genealogy is not an exact science, sometimes you have to give up a detail for the big picture. Regards, Vicky vas575@aol.com