Featured Family Photo #4

Debbie Trail Giffone, granddaughter of Justina Ambruso Graziadei, sent me several great family photographs.  This is one of them.  It shows her, at a young age, with a pixie haircut, in the midst of several male relatives, all uncles and cousins.  It was taken in the basement of their home in Whitestone, NY in the early 1960’s at some family gathering, perhaps the confirmation of her sister Laura. 

The men surrounding little Debbie are, from left to right are: John Angiulli, Diana’s son; Little Gerard Bruno, Debbie’s first cousin and son of Isabella Graziadei Bruno; Fred Tedeschi, husband of Esther Ambruso, Nick’s daughter; Dante Saraco, son of Sylvia Ambruso Saraco; and Vince Angiulli, John’s father. 

Does anyone have any family stories to share about these people?  I’d be willing to bet that there are enough stories about Dante to fill volumes.  Send me your story.

Descendants of Justina Ambruso and Anthony Graziadei

Wedding photo of Justina Ambruso and Anthony Graziadei (1929)
 

My Ambruso second cousins are coming out of the woodwork!  Not one, but two grandchildren of Justina Ambruso and Tony Graziadei have contacted me recently by e-mail.  One cousin, Debbie Justina Trail Giffone, sent several family photos including the one above. 

Justina and Tony had two daughters, Rose and Isabella.  Rose married Mark Trail.  Likewise, they also had two daughters, Laura and Debra.  Rose, Mark and the girls lived in Whitestone, Queens, NY.  Rose’s sister, Isabella, married Lenny Bruno and had a son, Gerard.  Both families lived in the same house, Isabella and her family on the floor above Rose’s family.  The sisters were very close.

When Debbie was about 10 years old, Rose and her family moved to south Florida.  A few years later, Isabella and her family also moved to south Florida along with the grandparents, Justina and Tony.  The whole family was together in Florida. 

In subsequent posts, I will share some of the great family photos that Debbie has sent me.  Many are from Uncle Nick’s house in Astoria.  We’ll have fun figuring out who everybody is.

If you have any old Ambruso family photos, please send them to me like Debbie did.  She just used her smart phone to take photos of pictures in an album, and then sent them to me attached to an e-mail.  The quality might not be as good as a digitally scanned picture, but hey, they are still worth 1,000 words.