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- 1 2 "Leo Lanzetta 1910 Census Record". March 2015.[ permanent dead link ]
- 1 2 "The Real People of Boardwalk Empire: Part 3". September 2014.
- ↑ "Pius 1910 Census Record". Ancestry.com . February 2022.
- 1 2 "The Lanzetti's-Philly's first drug dealers". March 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
- ↑ "Mickey Duffy and the Lanzettta Brothers". November 2010.
- ↑ "Philly's first Godfather Salvatore Sabella Born in Sicily 1891". March 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.