Photo courtesy of NYPL via HarlemBespoke.blogspot.com

Throughout my life I have been told of how extensive our family history goes on my mothers side, but recently I found out just how extensive.  In the past five years my mother and I have put much more effort to learn about her fathers family since his passing and the want to know just who we are and how he spent much of his life.

He was a traveler, a story teller and much more a sovergn man.  I didnt know him that well since my mother and father moved around alot being military during my childhood, but when we went to Pittsburgh the entire family in the area got together.

My mother often says, “It was my grandfather’s generation who wanted to learn about the family who came from Italy.”  Which would be my great grandfather’s family.

I have a 20 page report which shows our blood line and how we tie into the tree, but have a huge age cap since my grandfather was much younger than his siblings its hard to relate to that generation seeing as they were (and are) ten or fifteen years older than what my grandfather would be if he were still alive.

But through all this I now know that I still have a third cousin who resides in New York.  Now, possibly, he can answer some questions about the Bruno and Nacarrato connection to the Pullion and Pugliano lineage.  So if you were or are related to Rose Calderone (Twin Coaches) you are most likely related.

The funniest part about learning about our family now is that apparently they owned many restaurants, nightclubs and cafe around the New York area. 

My mother and I often reflect back on the type of business we wanted to own. I did an entrepreneurship competition in high school and the business I wanted to own and operate was ironically a speakeasy type club

I would like to start this page to allow any family out there who has memories of the clubs, cafe and restaurants to share them with me.  My mother and I are planning to travel to the New York area over the next year, but we want to make it a trip of a lifetime and hit some of the spots our family once traveled so we can remember their stories.

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I have had the opportunity to finish my website and help promote my skills to get hired either as a contracted graphic designer or as a full time employee.  Either way I need to get to work.  Memphis houses so many artisitic organizations that need promotion as well as thriving corporations looking to stay ahead in this tough economy.  I can help in creating unique and managable promotions to get consumers to buy in this tough ecomony, so get a head start and give me a call or email me.

Victoria Smith Graphic Designer & Writer
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