 Fathers and sons traveled to America seeking seasonal employment during the warm weather and returned to Italy in the Winter.Eventually most of the seasonal workers brought their families and settled in the Greater Boston area prior to the rapidly changing immigration laws (Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, the Johnson Quota Act, and the Immigration Act of 1924).The North End, Boston, Haverhill, Brockton, Revere, Quincy, and Pittsfield Massachusetts were home to many Ortona dei Marsi families.