This is an account of two people who left Italy for America: Costanza Mancini and Euplio Perlingiero both of whom were bound to large, tightly-knit families. They did not know each other in Italy. Each faced an uncertain future in Italy and followed in the footsteps of their fathers, other family members, and millions of Italians who chose to emigrate. Costanza and Euplio were part of the mass migration from Italy to America. Both made homes with their respective families in Philadelphia. There they met, married, and raised nine children. The couple pushed their children to succeed. Assimilation happened fast. Although the immigrant couple was part of an Italian-American community, the attachment to the ethnic neighborhood did not continue much past the first generation. None of their children married an Italian American. Few of the children stayed in the “old neighborhood” very long. The grandchildren were almost indistinguishable from other Americans.