Morris Meyers

Aldo and his wife, Camille, purchased this home in 1969 in the Gravesend Section of Brooklyn, N.Y. at: 8745 25th Avenue (extreme left home in foto). They lived here throughout the 1970's with their daughter, Jeannie, who was only about two years old when they moved here.

Every family has to start somewhere and have its roots in a particular place and time. For the Sarnelli family, Generoso Sarnelli (born: 1896) and Filomena (nee Bifolco) Sarnelli (born: 1901) were born in the Vesuvian town of Sarno, Provicia di Salerno,in the Campania region of Southern Italy. Theirs is the true immigrant story of arriving to a strange new land with nothing, to make a better life for themselves and their family to be. Arriving in 1920 at Ellis Island by boat, they had five children; Generoso as a bricklayer by trade and Filomena a fine seamstress. They worked hard, led simple lives, bought a home and sadly, both passed-away only in their late 60's in the 1960's. When people say their grandparents spoke "Italian" in the home, that is a misnomer. The immigrants from Southern Italy at the turn on the 20th century were largely illiterate and unskilled. They spoke the regional "dialects" from the regions where they emigrated i.e., Neapolitan, Pugliese, Calabrian, Sicilian, etc. They spoke "Neapolitan", (Sarnese) ,which is not a dialect, but a separate, distinct, and older language than standard Italian, which was derived from the Tuscan dialect and used to create a national tongue for a unified Italy c.1871.

Jay Meyers was born in Long-Branch, N.J. in 1964 and was the second born son to Joan and Neil Meyers. Jay passed-away quite suddenly in 2010 at age 46. He had three children and was the light of his mother's eye. {1964-2010} "R.I.P."

Carmela Meyers-Herman was born in 1962 and is 60 years old. She is the daughter of Joan Meyers and has a twin brother, Troy. Carmela is married to David and lives in Jackson, N.J. and is the proud mother of three beautiful children.