I don't know if anything here will be of help in your search, but I'm writing this anyway. You must understand that I cannot verify any of this information as I only met my "father" (the man listed on my birth certificate) twice ... once at age 5 and again at 24 ... and he was less than happy about it both times.
I don't currently have a copy of my birth certificate (fire) but as I recall the name filled in for "Father" is Joseph Leonard Americo. Place of birth is Brooklyn (?), New York (for sure) and the year of his birth was somewhere in the 1940's (1946 I think). Ten years ago I tracked him down (hence our second meeting) and found him living in Southbend, Indiana under the name Joseph Poul.
He has been married at least twice. My mother being one of them. Her name at the time was Mollie Odell Mason-Bolling (maiden-her first marriage). They most likely would have been married in the city of Lima, Ohio (Allen County) somewhere around 1967-68.
His previous marriage was to a woman named Betty (unknown MI/maiden) who still carries the last name and lives (or lived I don't know anymore) on High Street in Lima as well.
Betty had at least one daughter by the name of Beth (unknown MI/surname) who was, last I heard, married and living in Dayton, Ohio. (She is about ten years older than I making her about forty-five now).
I realize all this is going forward instead of backward as your post requests, but maybe some new leads can be uncovered to help you in your search.
On that note, the only thing I have from that side of the family is a fencing sword that was made for training/practice (circa 1905) with a partially obscured stamp that reads:
SI(rest unreadable), ITALY.
I mention this because my mother told me it was brought from Italy by his parents and that he was born on the ship as they were coming to the United States. If he was indeed born on a trans-Atlantic crossing en route to New York, there will most definately be a record somewhere and maybe a note about the port they sailed from.
Well, that is everything I know (or think I know) about the name Americo. I wish you well in your search.
