Linda Ann (Pineda) Ball was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1943. Her mother, Ella Santos, was born in Hungary in 1912, into a mixed family. Her maternal grandmother was Hungarian and her maternal grandfather was Filipino. Her father, Luciano Pineda, was also born in the Philippines, in 1908. She attended PS 112 Grammar School for two years and Santa Maria Catholic School for two years in the Bronx. After losing both parents to illness in 1952, Ball and her brother moved to the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn to live with their mother's godmother, Marion del Rosario (who was of mixed Filipino/German descent) and her husband Herman (a Filipino). There she attended PS 12, Montauk Junior High School (JHS 223), and Bay Ridge High School. After school she worked as a secretary for New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz, and then as a secretary in the Patent Department of the Union Carbide Corporation. She married Louis Tochet and then relocated to Chicago, Illinois. They had two children, Noelle (born in 1965) and Peter (born in 1966). She and Louis divorced in 1983, and she then married Robert Ball in 1987, who had four children from a previous marriage: John, Jeffrey, Judy, and Jim. After his retirement in 1990, they moved to Sarasota, Florida.

Imogene "Jean" (Rainey) Carino was born in Bon Aqua, Tennessee in 1922. A descendent of early Scotch-Irish and English pioneers, she was one of ten children and assisted raising her younger siblings on the family farm. After graduating high school, she moved to Nashville and worked for the County Health Department while living in a women's boarding home. She met her husband, Theodore Carino, at a USO dance. Theodore was a Filipino-American who played in the Army Air Corps band. They married in 1946 and the couple moved to Emerson Place in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn where they lived with his parents. In New York she continued to work, first for Bonwit Teller and then for an ocean liner and shipping company in lower Manhattan. The couple moved to Queens, had one daughter (Patricia), and eventually bought a home in West Islip, Long Island, where they had two more children, Peter and Phillip. The family later moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she managed a department store bridal shop. The couple retired and moved to Florida in 1997.

Theodore Carino was born in 1920 in Brooklyn to a Filipino father (from Bauan, Batanaas) and a mother of Norwegian-German descent. As a young boy his family lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then moved back to Brooklyn. He lived on Johnson Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood, Emerson Place in the neighborhood of Clinton Hill, and later moved to the neighborhood of Flatbush. He attended PS 5, Erasmus Hall High School, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After attending college for several years, he joined the Army Air Corps. Carino then had a long career as an engineer in the defense and aerospace industry, working for industry leaders such as Sperry Rand and Lear Jet. He was briefly married to Alice (Tomkins) Lamont, with whom he had one daughter, Janet Stephanie (Carino) Seibel. He met his second wife, Imogene "Jean" Rainey while he was stationed in Tennessee with the Army Air Corps. They lived in Brooklyn, then Queens, West Islip (Long Island), Grand Rapids (Michigan), and finally Florida, where they retired. They had three children, Patricia, Peter, and Phillip.

Theodore Carino was born in 1920 in Brooklyn to a Filipino father (from Bauan, Batanaas) and a mother of Norwegian-German descent. As a young boy his family lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then moved back to Brooklyn. He lived on Johnson Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood, Emerson Place in the neighborhood of Clinton Hill, and later moved to the neighborhood of Flatbush. He attended PS 5, Erasmus Hall High School, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. After attending college for several years, he joined the Army Air Corps. Carino then had a long career as an engineer in the defense and aerospace industry, working for industry leaders such as Sperry Rand and Lear Jet. He was briefly married to Alice (Tomkins) Lamont, with whom he had one daughter, Janet Stephanie (Carino) Seibel. He met his second wife, Imogene "Jean" Rainey while he was stationed in Tennessee with the Army Air Corps. They lived in Brooklyn, then Queens, West Islip (Long Island), Grand Rapids (Michigan), and finally Florida, where they retired. They had three children, Patricia, Peter, and Phillip.

Alice (Astorga) Flores was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1919. Her father, Stanley Astorga, was a Filipino immigrant and her mother was of Lithuanian descent. Stanley served in the U.S. Navy and was an active member of the Dr. Jose Rizal VFW Post 867. Alice and her brother, Stanley Astorga Jr., were active members of the Filipino-American community center at 305 Fulton Street in Brooklyn. The family lived at 74 Johnson Street and on Chapel Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn. She married Antonio Flores, also a Filipino-American, during World War II and had two children. She worked for the federal government for many years and today lives in an apartment adjacent to her daughter's home in Manalapan, New Jersey.

George Gomez was born circa 1915 in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. His father, Zararias Gomez, was born in Ilog, Philippines, in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in the 1900s. His mother, Mary "Mamie" Atlackson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1888. Her father was a Norwegian immigrant and her mother was of German descent. He lived on Hudson Avenue and Johnson Street in the Downtown neighborhood of Brooklyn until the 1950s, when he moved to Emerson Place in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.

George and his father worked for the New York Central Railroad as deck hands, moving barges with tugboats in New York Harbor. Later George worked for the New York City Park Service as a gardener. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, most notably at Guadalcanal, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his service.

He married once and had no children. Later in life he lived in the Middle Village neighborhood of Queens, New York, where he died in 2011.

Anna Victoria "Nonny" (Adap) Kachmar was in Brooklyn, New York in 1919. The only child of Augusta Hylick, and Antonio "Tony" Adap, she was raised in a large extended family, already ethnically mixed from the several marriages of her maternal grandmother. They resided on both Prospect Street and Adams Street in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Her mother was born in New York City and was a second generation Czech American. Her father was born in the Batangas province of the Philippines. He moved to Manila as a young man, and from found employment on U.S. Naval ships. After serving the U.S. Navy as a laborer, he was discharged in Virginia and soon settled in Brooklyn, New York. He worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the tool and dye industry.

Kachmar attended elementary school at PS 8 in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. An accomplished student, she was later the valedictorian of St. Anne's High School's graduating class. She then worked as a lab technician at the Brillo factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she met her future husband, John Kachmar. During World War II she worked as a riveter at the Navy Yard. After the war she raised two sons, and worked as an administrator at an elementary school in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn. She later moved to Ohio, Connecticut, and finally Long Island, New York.

Richard Pineda was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941. His mother, Ella Santos, was born in Hungary in 1912, into a mixed family. His maternal grandmother was Hungarian and his maternal grandfather from the Philippines. His father, Luciano Pineda, a professional photographer, was also born in the Philippines, in 1908. After losing both parents to illness in 1952, Pineda and his sister (Linda Ball, also in this collection) moved to the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn to live with his godmother, Marion del Rosario (who was of German/Norwegian/Filipina descent) and her husband Herman (a Filipino). He attended PS 12, JHS 223, and finally, New Utrecht High School in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn. As of 2014, after a career with NBC as a cameraman and boom operator, he lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida.

Rita (Hylick) Steuer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1921. She lived in Kearney, New Jersey, for several years as a young child, until her family moved back to Brooklyn. There they resided on Pearl Street in the Downtown neighborhood of Brooklyn. She attended PS 12, Nathan Hale Junior High School, and Girls Commercial High School. Her father was of Bohemian descent and her mother was of Irish descent. Her grandmother ran a boardinghouse where Filipino men that were employed at the nearby Brooklyn Navy Yard resided. Subsequently, several of Steuer's aunts married Filipino men. At age twenty one, she married Fred Steuer, an American who was raised by an aunt in a Filipino-American household. The couple lived in Bellrose, New York (Long Island), had one son, Louis. Later in life Steuer relocated to Florida. She passed away in September 2013.