Genealogy & Local History in Buffalo, NY
Searchable
Databases & Name Lists for Genealogists - Brewers & Breweries of Buffalo, 1811-1996--a list of about 180 individuals and companies
- Buffalo City Directories--a
few directories are online for free.
- Buffalo Club, Index of Members, 1926
- Buffalo Dental Dept. 1910 Commencement
- Buffalo Public Schools Directory, 1916--probably includes only teachers and administrators, not pupils
- Buffalo Society of Vermonters, Index of Members, 1900-1901
- The Buffalo News has searchable archives back to 1989. Full-text articles may be retrieved for a small fee.
- Buffalo Photographers, 1855-1881 as found in city directories
- Buffalo Police Officers Who Died in the Line of Duty--a list of names
- BuffaloTalks--an online telephone book just for Buffalo, and Erie County. Search for current residents and businesses, including churches, cemeteries, and funeral directors. Has yellow page categories (click on "C" for churches and cemeteries, for example) at lower left.
- Buffalo Tax Roll of 1800
- Canisius
College Archives--search here to see if the College Archives have
any items about faculty, students, of staff at Canisius
- Early Settlers of Western New York is a two-volume set of books, available on microfiche from AncestorSpy. This pages lists some of the surnames on the fiche.
- East Side Surnames from the 1890 Buffalo City Directory--a volunteer project
- Erie
County WWII Casualties
- Erie County Searchable Databases--If you know where your people lived, this is a nifty site for finding what's online for each town.
- Erie Railroad Employee Listings--includes the Buffalo & Susquehanna Division
- 50th University of Buffalo Medical Dept. Announcement, 1895
- History of the Germans in Buffalo and Erie County, N.Y--about 200 biographies scanned and translated from this book, originally published in 1898
- The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, 1924--a few dozen names of members from Buffalo and Alden
- Lafayette High School Commencement 1905--an index of names
- Midwives in Buffalo, NY--scroll down for a link listing over 100 Polish midwives from the 1890s to the 1930s
- Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society Genealogy Surname List--names of over 1500 individuals, most of whom have a marine or maritime connection with the Port of Buffalo, New York
- Mayors of Buffalo--a list from its founding to the present day
- Names of Colored People--as scanned from the 1832 Buffalo City Directory
- Przewodnik Handlowy Database--Buffalo Polish businessmen of early 1900s. In Polish.
- RootsWeb School Alumni Lists--has names of Masten Park Alumni of 1922-1924, searchable in this big alumni database
- Ten Old Lutheran Passenger Lists for Lutherans that went to Buffalo Erie & Niagara Counties, NY and Dodge, Jefferson, Washington, Ozaukee, and Milwaukee Counties, Wisconsin in 1843
- Through the Mayor's Eyes--has in-depth biographical profiles of each Buffalo mayor, in chronological order
- University
of Buffalo Biographical File Database--an index to articles and
photographs in the UB Archives about people associated with the
University
- Indians on the Tonawanda Reservation--copied from History of Genesee County, (Beers, 1890).
- Western NY Profiles--a list of people researched by Nancy Sampson, compiled from unidentified sources at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
Updated
8 March 2008