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*  Cemeteries & Funeral Homes

All links with searchable names have been moved to Vital Records. The links below give other kinds of information, such as maps, contact names & addresses, histories etc.
  • Buffalo Funeral Homes currently in business, brought to you by Preplannet, inc. There are about 75 funeral directors listed here, some with links.
  • Cemetery Maps of Buffalo--actually, maps of Pine Hill in Cheektowaga, Mount Olivet in Kenmore, and Forest Lawn in Buffalo. Brought to you by the Schwert Family website.
  • Cemetery Association of Western NY--appears to be a trade organization for those in the burial business
  • *  Buffalo (and area) Cemeteries in 1879--William Hodge's list, transcribed by Kathy Kopp. A good list of cemeteries known to have existed in the city of Buffalo up to 1879.
  • Buffalo's Cemeteries--a historical article from 1884, reprinted at Buffalonian.com
  • Catholic Cemeteries, Diocese of Buffalo--no internment lists online yet, but there is a brief history of each Catholic cemetery, plus contact information
  • Jewish Cemeteries--brief descriptions and addresses from the Jewish Buffalo website
  • Cemeteries--a list of local cemeteries, with addresses, phone numbers, and in some cases, maps, as compiled by Curtin Funeral Home
  • Cemetery Records on Microfilm at the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
  • Cemetery Records on Microfilm at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
  • Cemetery Records in Print at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library--includes items in the collection of the Western NY Genealogical Society
  • Cemeteries in Erie County--a selected list from The Political Graveyard
  • Forest Lawn Cemetery--mentions names of famous people buried here
  • *  Cemetery List--a mega-list of cemeteries and their addresses in New York state, compiled by the Department of State, which oversees cemeteries in New York. It is not complete but it is long enough to print out at about 55 pages. The addresses are for mail or business rather than the physical cemetery location, which increases the chance that a request for a record might actually get delivered and seen by someone.
  • An Inventory and Geographical Index of Upstate New York State Tombstone Carvers compiled by Daniel H. Weiskotten. He didn't study Western NY cemeteries, but this is such an unusual site I had to add it anyway. I was sorry to learn that Dan passed away in the spring of 2005.

*  Censuses

The good news for those who can afford to subscribe is that Ancestry.com has digitized U.S. census images from 1790 to 1930.  Free census links with personal names are now available at my Vital Records page.  For a lengthier discussion of local censuses, see the FAQ page.
  • *  Erie County Censuses--A list of existing Federal and State censuses, 1790-1925. Only tiny portions of local censuses are online for free because, understandably, few volunteers are eager transcribe millions of names from miles of microfilm.
  • Erie County, New York Federal Census Index--a list of existing census microfilms that are waiting to be adopted and transcribed by people just like you. Until the names are online, though, use this site to figure out what wards, towns, and enumerations districts are on each roll of Erie County census film.
  • Erie County, NY Federal & State Censuses--a list of censuses, 1850-1925, giving the ward numbers, NARA film numbers, and LDS film numbers for existing microfilms. No personal names at this site.
  • New York State Censuses--Chris Andrle shows what questions were asked by NY State, 1825-1925. The oldest surviving NY State census for Erie County is 1855.
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*  Military History & Records

Military records of those who served in America's wars are not stored in the city where they enlisted or fought. They are in the National Archives, whose job it is to house the records of the US federal government, because only the Federal Government can declare a war and draft people.
*  Regional Sites for Nearby Counties


*  Miscellaneous links that don't fit elsewhere



Updated 8 March 2008


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