THE MISSING LINK HAS BEEN FOUND!!!!
I am quoting the following from Vera's website:
http://sws5animals.com/main.php?o=6
"Sifu Richard Vera was instructed personally by and is the only protege of a world renowned doctor of Chinese Medicine and Martial Art practitioner named Ark Y. Wong. In order to attain this status, Sifu Vera spent seventeen years at Dr. Wong's School and Acupunture Clinic. After fourteen years of assisting Dr. Wong at his Martial Art School and Clinic, Sifu Vera futhered his knowledge by continuing his studies in Oriental Medicine and other forms of Classical Chinese Martial Art
Dr. Wong died in 1987, leaving Sifu Vera as the sole inheritor of Dr. Wong's acupunture and his martial art. Sifu Vera is now in his thirty-third year as a practitioner and teacher. He has been instructing children, youth, and adults for thirty years. Within the last six years, Sifu Vera established an exercise program principally focusing on children. Sifu vera began this program in order to reduce the growing numbers of at risk youth within the community. From 1994 to the year 2001, Sifu vera taught at a parochial school (St. Anthony's School) in San Gabriel, California with great success, This program is called the Young Tiger Martial Art Program.Sifu Vera is now attempting to expand this model program to neighboring commnities."
Since he is the ONLY PROTEGE and SOLE INHERITOR of GM Wong, we no longer need to look for or care for lineage. This thread seems obsolete, case closed.