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Italian emigration can be divided into two major periods, with about 10,000 emigrants leaving prior to the first period. Prior to the 1890s, a higher majority of Italian immigrants originally came from northern Italy, particularly from the mountain areas of Veneto, Friuli,Piedmont and Lombardy .After 1890, a majority of the emigration was concentrated in the mezzogiorno area of Italy— Abruzzo, ...
This Project is dedicated to the largest and oldest Italian-American fraternal orgainzation in the United States. Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America Founded on June 22, 1905 by Vincenzo Sellaro to help assimilate Italians into American society during the immigration boom of the early 20th Century. The organizations primary objectives are preserving Italian American traditi...