If you go to your Family history center I think they have a CD or a film that has arrivals in to New Orleans (I think it is on "Italians to America xxx to xxx (years)", first you find your ancestor there using soundex, it will show an index card that has the ship and date of arrival, then you would send for the film that the ship is on, if it is filmed. I believe that's what I did to find my grandather, it has been a long time ago so I'm not sure exactly how I did it. You can also go to NARA if there is one near you. either of these place will help you go through the steps. Also check here http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/orleans/ships.htm and try ISTG http://www.immigrantships.net/ I know on the ship I helped to transcribe there were people going to Donaldsville. That peticular ship is in Volume 6, the SSLiguria, but it arrived in 1910... but you never know maybe there is a relative on that ship. I am in the process of transcribing another ship and found three relatives on it that I didn't know were there, what a surprise. There are a lot of ways to use ISTG, you can put in the port they landed in, then the year, or you can try by name, and I believe anything with their name will come up, even if it is an entry where someone was comming to join them. I have never found my Uncle's ship but I have found his wife on one ship, his brother on one and his brother in law on another all because they all were joining him when they got to NO. Joni Saunders