Researching the Mafia

[Antiliar]

This post will list the online resources currently available for doing research on the Mafia and organized crime, especially in the United States.

Search engines and Starting Points: (This is the general starting point for research)
Google, https://www.google.com/
Bing, https://www.bing.com/
Yahoo, https://search.yahoo.com/
Google Books, https://books.google.com/
Wikipedia, https://www.wikipedia.org/
Mafia Wiki, http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Mafia_Wiki

Photo Archives and Search Engines
Yahoo Image Search, https://images.search.yahoo.com/
Bing Image Search, https://www.bing.com/images/explore?FORM=ILPSTR
Google Image Search, https://images.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl
TinEye Reverse Image Search, https://www.tineye.com/
Google Reverse Image Search help, https://support.google.com/websearch/an ... 5808?hl=en
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
New York Daily News Photo Archive, http://www.nydailynewspix.com/sales/home.php

Newspapers:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton.html [Fulton Postcards -- free newspaper search engine]
http://www.fultonhistory.com/my%20photo ... index.html
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/searc ... ced_search [Chronicling America -- free newspaper search engine from the Library of Congress]
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/
https://news.google.com/newspapers [list of titles; search engine does not work well]
https://www.newspapers.com/ [pay site]
http://newspaperarchive.com/ [pay site]
https://www.genealogybank.com/ [pay site]
http://www.proquest.com/products-servic ... -news.html [pay site only found in university, college and public libraries]
http://www.nytimes.com/search/ [New York Times archive, free from 1851 to 1922]
http://www.freenewspaperarchives.us/ [Free newspaper archives in the United States]
http://www.elephind.com/ [Free newspaper archives from around the world, especially the United States and Australia]
http://newspaperarchive.com/free-newspaper-archives [Free version of newspaperarchive.com]
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc [Free California newspaper archive]
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/ [Chicago Tribune newspaper archive]
https://libraries.psu.edu/about/departm ... e-historic
http://www.theoldentimes.com/ [Free newspaper archives and genealogy from around the world]
http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ [Free British newspaper archive]
https://trove.nla.gov.au/ [National Library of Australia - includes many old newspapers]

Major Libraries (These have more online resources than a home user can get, and are free to use INSIDE their libraries; some databases can be accessed from home)
http://eresources.loc.gov/search~S9/m?S ... Periodical [Library of Congress]
http://eresources.loc.gov/search~S9?/mN ... room&51,80 [Library of Congress, continued]
https://www.nypl.org/ [New York Public Library]
http://www.lapl.org/ [Los Angeles Public Library]
https://archive.org/index.php [free uploaded documents, including books and FBI files]
Youtube.com [Many uploaded Mafia-related videos, many are full-length]
https://vimeo.com/ [alternative to YouTube]
http://www.worldcat.org [Catalogue for libraries around the world]

Genealogy and Vital Records:
http://www.Ancestry.com [pay]
http://www.Familysearch.org [free]
http://www.Fold3.com [pay]
http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/regadvan.htm [pay]
http://www.stevemorse.org/ [free useful genealogy search engine that provides better results]
http://www.cyndislist.com/ [Updated links to all known genealogical resources]
http://www.familytreenow.com/ [free genealogy site]
http://www.sersale.org/comunes.htm [transcribed Italian vital records]
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/col ... &scroll=45 [New York City directories - Free]
https://sites.google.com/site/onlinedir ... ewyorkcity [New York City directories]
https://archive.org/details/brooklynpub ... itleSorter [Brooklyn city directories]
http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it ... aurazione/ [Sicily birth, death and marriage records in Italian from 1820 to 1865 for the Province of Palermo]
http://dl.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/?q=gallery [Vital records for all of Sicily]

Crime-related:
http://www.maryferrell.org [pay, has LCN FBI files from the JFK Assassination Collection]
http://www.gangrule.com/ [Site that covers early New York Mafia by Jon Black]
http://mafiamembershipcharts.blogspot.com/ {Mafia membership charts by Bill Feather]
http://gangsterreport.com/ [Up-to-date stories from Al Profit and Scott Burnstein]
http://www.americanmafia.com/ [Rick Porrello's Mafia-related site with a focus on Cleveland]
http://www.onewal.com/ [The American Mafia by Tom Hunt]
http://gangstersinc.ning.com/ [David Amoruso's site]
https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/crimeinny/trials/ [John Jay College Crime in New York]
https://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/crimeinny ... cripts.php [Free, list of court downloadable transcripts]
https://vault.fbi.gov/ [FBI Vault - free downloadable transcripts]
https://www.nij.gov/Pages/welcome.aspx [National Institute of Justice]
http://www.laborers.org/ [Typed reports on organized crime and labor, mostly in Chicago]
http://www.ipsn.org/orourke_affidavit.php [Site by former CPD investigator John J. Flood]
https://www.justice.gov/ [United States Department of Justice]
http://www.ganglandchicagohistory.com/ [Chicago Outfit history site by J. P. Rich; site defunct, see link below]
https://web.archive.org/web/20150118091 ... story.com/ [Chicago Outfit history site by J. P. Rich via Internet Archive Wayback Machine]
https://www.chicagohistory.org/ [Chicago History Museum]
http://themobmuseum.org/ [Las Vegas Mob Museum]
http://homicide.northwestern.edu/ [Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930 by Northwestern University]
http://chicagocrimescenes.blogspot.com/ [Chicago Crime Scenes Project]
http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/depar ... icide.html [Cyberdrive Illinois]
https://www.bop.gov/inmateloc/ [Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator]
http://bitterqueen.typepad.com/friends_of_ours/ [Blog about organized crime and gays]
http://mafiaslugger.blogspot.com/ [Blog from ex-Los Angeles Family mobster Anthony Fiato]
https://www.whosarat.com/index.php [Site that seeks to expose informers]
http://breakshotblog.blogspot.com/ [Blog by Kenji Gallo]
http://www.cosanostranews.com/ [Mafia blog by Ed Scarpo]
http://www.ahfweb.org/download/AZOrganizedCrime.pdf
http://museumofgaminghistory.org/mogh.php [Museum of Gaming History]
http://www.writersofwrongs.com/ [Organized crime writers' blog]
http://aarclibrary.org/ [(JFK) Assassination Archives and Research Center]
http://wayback.archive.org/web/20141007 ... ngRoom.htm [Nevada Observer Reading Room defunct website, accessed through the Internet Archive Wayback Machine]
https://www.muckrock.com/ [Site where journalists and writers share information; includes many FBI files]
http://www.writersofwrongs.com/ [Great free articles by today's top organized crime writers]
https://web.archive.org/web/20150910054 ... apone.com/ [Link to defunct site Mister Capone by author Robert J. Schoenberg via Internet Archive Wayback Machine]

Important Organized Crime Documents:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/ ... ?ID=119303 [Valachi Hearings, free pdf download]
http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/coll ... l/id/29560 [Juice Racketeers]
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/search/Search ... ype=Phrase [Organized crime publications]
http://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent ... ce_facpubs [42 Gang by Robert M. Lombardo]
https://archive.org/details/illinoiscrimesur00illi [Illinois Crime Survey by John Landesco]
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%2 ... ommerce%22 [Kefauver Hearings]
https://archive.org/details/alcaponebiograp0pasl [Al Capone Biography of a Self-Made Man by Fred Pasley]
https://archive.org/details/chicagogangwarsi00rock [Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures - X Marks the Spot]
http://homicide.northwestern.edu/pubs/ [Chicago-related publications]
https://oag.ca.gov/search-results/?quer ... d+crime%22 [Organized Crime in California reports]
http://www.nj.gov/sci/reportsoc.shtm [New Jersey organized crime reports]
http://www.state.nj.us/sci/reportsall.shtm
http://informer-journal.blogspot.com/ [Informer Journal]
Organized Crime in Chicago: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitiz ... 2NCJRS.pdf
https://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/ ... ny-pdf.pdf [Govt report on infiltration of Indian reservations by organized crime, includes testimony from Donald Trump]
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitiz ... 8NCJRS.pdf [Organized Crime in Pennsylvania, 1990]
https://www.gangstalking.eu/Media/PDF/M ... opedia.pdf [Carl Sifakis, The Mafia Encyclopedia]
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitiz ... 3NCJRS.pdf [Organized Crime, 25 Years After Valachi - includes testimony of Tommaso Buschetta, Angelo Lonardo, Vincent Cafaro, and History of the Cosa Nostra

[JeremyTheJew]

But most those sources tho have Proven to be in accurate.... U just posted Wikipedia.... We all know that old beef we all had with that.

The problem is.... This is a SECRET SOCIETY.
....were not supposed to know lol....
Sometimes when someone finds out to much.... Shit can get put on the line.... So.... Ty for your sources bc ik that i will surly look into a lot of those.... Im just kinda passing on KNOWLEDGE from personal experience.... SOMETIMES.... you dont wanna know the truth. Bc the truth hurts.... A lot.

[JeremyTheJew]

But.. PAST HISTORY.... is a whole different boat lol.

I myself am interested more in the mary ferrell site bc thats strictly has been info and u cant walk in on something you didnt know was even there lol

[Antiliar]

Wikipedia is a place to start, that's all.

[100100]

As long as it is sourced and you can click on that, wiki is good. Not the best or greatest but anything sourced is good. And its coming from a legit article or so.

[OlBlueEyesClub]

Thanks a lot Antiliar, appreciate all of this.

[JeremyTheJew]

Yes thanks ant. Didnt mean to sound like i wasnt appreciative.

[JeremyTheJew]

GLAD TO SEE THIS POST UP TOP!!! Lol. Sorry again if i did not show my gratitude for basically answering s question i had asked elsewhere.

I put my foot in my mouth a lot.... Lol

[JeremyTheJew]

As long as it is sourced and you can click on that, wiki is good. Not the best or greatest but anything sourced is good. And its coming from a legit article or so.

So... Does internet count tho as legit sources now tho? Bc internet can be ANYTHING these days...

[100100]

Well depends on the website. Wouldn't trust something just because its sourced on someone's blog. Thats on your discretion.

[Raven]

Antiliar,

Thanks for the list. Very good and very useful.

JeremyTheJew, you have to use your best judgement on if something is true or not. If your unsure, do more research on it.

[OlBlueEyesClub]

Jeremy, why the hell are you breaking Antiliar's balls like this? LIke Raven said, YOU have to use YOUR best judgment and more SELF research in order to determine whats true or not. And all of that is completely up to YOU.

[JeremyTheJew]

Lol.its interesting that i have NEVER BEEN ACCUSED of breaking anyones balls, or trolling, EVER UNTIL NOW.

its also funny bc iv known most of these guys since i originally was involved w these forums since 2006 when me and Scott b first met.

Lol what a coincidence that MY NAME IS BEING BLASTED UPON right now. Lol its even MORE FUNNY how someone actually trademarked my name AFTER ME.

soooo. If youd like, put me on blast lol. Why should i care? Oh no these faceless internet thugs are after me i guess.

[JeremyTheJew]

Jeremy, why the hell are you breaking Antiliar's balls like this? LIke Raven said, YOU have to use YOUR best judgment and more SELF research in order to determine whats true or not. And all of that is completely up to YOU.

To answer your question more appropriatly tho...
How is thanking him for his tips on where to go and then EVEN APOLOGIZING TO HIM....

Lol. But whos trolling now?

[Ed]

Great stuff. Very kind of you to take the trouble to do this.