Beneficiaries of My Soul: From the Benefactors to the Beneficiaries 1869-2009 (140 years) A Memoir of My Sicilian Family in Bushwick

As I entered my senior years, I began to feel the urgency of time. While watching my four grandchildren grow through the years, I began to ponder their total lack of knowledge regarding another time in society. I felt it to be my responsibility to bring them back in time to the 1940's and 1950's. My childhood experiences while growing up in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, NY (1940's-1950's) with my large Sicilian family is the foundation of the memoir. The story opens with my birth in a cold water flat in Bushwick one year after the end of World War II and continues on to the beginning years of the new millennium when the four of them were born. They were introduced to all their ancestors along with their distinct personalities and physical appearances. The title of the memoir is "Beneficiaries of my Soul." I felt the title to be appropriate because as the beneficiaries of my monetary assets, they are also the beneficiaries of my life experiences. At the end of the memoir I provide documentation beginning with their great-great grandparents D.O.B's., towns in Sicily where they were born and migrated from, and continue the documentation from one generation to the next ending with their births.