The list of resources is vast. There are a few Friends who would rather go unnamed. I respect their wishes. They include, but are not limited to the following people and organizations:

• My love and gratitude are forever with my wife; Wendy and our three children; Raymond, Danny and Amy. Thank you for putting up with me for such a long time as the quest to uncover the mystery about Manny has many times enveloped me, so much so that Manny was all that I could think about it. This book and all that I do is for you, my famiglia and I love you.

• My mother Dolores (Manny's sister) was and is an invaluable source of information with first-hand accounts of her brother. Her sibling relationship with Manny provided a perspective not available from his friends and associates on the street. She knew him as her big brother and only as her big brother. Her childhood innocence of his "other life" lent itself to a totally different facet to the story. I'm grateful for her extraordinary memory and recall of the facts down to the finest detail. More importantly, I'm just grateful for HER.

• My Aunt Vitress (Manny's sister) who wrote many short stories, all of which I was able to piece into the story with the accuracy of first-hand accounts. The stories came from her mother and are incredibly detailed as to provide the reader with an intimate feel into what it was like for her mother Mary growing up around the turn of the twentieth century. I doubt this book could have been written at all without her short stories. It certainly would not have turned out in its current form. The pages she wrote proved to be The Rosetta Stone for this work.
• Reverend Sal Scuderi who was at Our Lady Of Mt. Carmel at the time of my research. Father Sal  was kind enough to allow me access to church records, some frail and faded, but loaded with historical information. Father Sal and I remain friends today. We're currently working on attaining National Historic Site status to the Mecca House (The White House) to help Camden and preserve what remains in Camden from that time period.  I think it's a good cause.
• The research department at the Church of Latter Day Saints provided documents of all types with respect to Italian records. I was able to gather a ton of information from their microfilm library.
• www.ellisisland.org was a great help with ship manifests and many other bits of information.
• The Philadelphia Free Library was a tremendous source for geological reference of early New Jersey and Philadelphia. This provided exact property owner's names and the sizes of parcels of land at different times during the story. Of course, I was able to research the characters in the story from a different angle via the mountain of books I went through. 
• The Camden County Historical Society was an incredible source for who lived where, at what time and their occupations. It was also an invaluable resource for newspaper accounts for the news of the day. Many hours were spent going through microfilmed newspapers to read what was printed.
• The US Post Office in Center City Philadelphia was a great source for their holdings of the US Census for every year available.  
• Phil Cohen's site www.dvrbs.com was an incredible source for the book as well as getting the site to where I wanted it to be. Phil, yer the man!!! Please visit his site!
• Celeste Morello (author of the three BEFORE BRUNO books) was more of a help to me than most. Her books and counsel gave me a completely different set of views into the history of the Philadelphia / New Jersey mob. She is the definitive Philadelphia mob historian. Her information and advice proved to be the gold mine that I needed to complete the research.  I strongly advise those interested in the Philadelphia mob to read her incredibly informative books. Celeste and I became fast friends through my research and I'm sure we will remain so.
• A special thanks to two of the editors of the book. They helped with typographical errors as well as grammar, but also helped with suggestions as far as what to add and what to delete. These were tough decisions, but they helped enormously. Kathy Arena was the original editor and helped to make some of the more major changes; thanks Kathy. Linda Messina-Rutherford polished it to what you'll read. Linda is a very accomplished English teacher and offered her education not only in an editing capacity, but with her opinions on the final product. Thanks Linda!
• Thank you to David Baldwin Photography for your endless help with the imagery for this Web site and the book. I'm glad we're cousins!
• One of the most influential and informative persons to assist in my research is my friend Sal Avena, an attorney in Camden.  Sal was able to connect me with many people in the neighborhood, giving yet more insight into the way things were during Manny's day. More valuable to me is the friendship forged between Sal and I, which I will treasure always.