Brought to you by the NY State Department of Corrections. Lists inmates in state prisons going back to the early 1970s. Youthful offenders are not included.

Up to 1948

Buffalo Psychiatric Center patient case files, 1920-1975 are in the custody of the New York State Archives in Albany. They are not digitized or online. Privacy restrictions apply.

Buffalo State Hospital patient case files, 1881-1920, are in the custody of the New York State Archives in Albany. They are not digitized or online. Privacy restrictions apply.

Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: "Why don’t you digitize everything?" and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records on the web?”

New York State's historical marker program began in 1926. This explains what happened to it and how to get a marker now.

Parish registers, 1931-2004

Parish registers, 1847-1950

Baptisms & marriages, 1862-1990

Marriages, baptisms 1896-1952

Baptisms, 1946-1948; membership rolls, 1893-1990s.

Membership rolls, 1864, 1970-1992; baptisms and marriages ,1945-1965. The church celebrated its bicentennial in 2016.

Membership rolls and registers from 1933-1992

This collection is not digitized or online. The link opens a guide documenting the religious and community activities of Temple Beth Zion synagogue. Includes photographs, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, flyers, certificates, architectural drawings and special format or oversize materials dating from 1864 to 2008. Includes materials created by auxiliaries, religious school, leadership, administration and clergy.

This collection is not digitized or online. The link opens up a guide to the collection.

Beginning at the end of the 19th century, Polish immigrants began settling into Niagara Falls, NY. Inspired to have a worship-site in their own language, local parishioners secured funds for the purchase of a property in the city’s East side. On May 27, 1902 the newly formed Roman Catholic Church was dedicated by Bishop Quigley. As membership increased, a larger house of worship became necessary. Constructed by the Braas Brothers Company Building Contractors, the church celebrated its first mass in the newly erected building in 1906. Holy Trinity Church features Romanesque Revival influence...

Mostly construction records and guest books

Includes birth records, 1900-1910 and 1956.

This congregation dates back to 1843.

Includes parish registers from 1857-2001.

The Delaware Avenue Baptist Church began as Olivet Chapel, a Sunday School organized in 1874 to serve residents in the North Street area. During this time, the congregation had acquired a small brick carpenter’s shop on Delaware Avenue near North Street to use as a school. Rev. Hotchkiss, pastor of the Washington Street Baptist Church, preached the first sermon in the chapel on September 13, 1874.

Back in 1909, the record of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church directed the organizations of the Episcopal mission in the Pine Avenue 25th Street area of Niagara Falls, NY. Organized to serve the English immigrants who were coming from Canada to worship here, the mission was the beginning of the church known to city residents as the Church of the Redeemer Episcopal, at 820 Hyde Park Blvd.

The congregation first met in January 1904 and was known as the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethany Church. A place of worship was found and services began in August 1904 at the German Evangelical Church on Michigan Avenue near Main Street. With the congregation growing, they purchased at lot in 1906 and built a church of their own at Ferry Avenue and Twenty-Seventh Street in Niagara Falls, NY

The Clerk's Office of the Seneca Nation of Indians welcomes genealogy inquiries. However, because such research is very time consuming, we feel it is reasonable to charge a fee of $50.00 for this service. It is free for enrolled Senecas.

Searchable guides to letters, diaries, personal papers, company records & other one-of-a-kind archival stuff in repositories across NY State.

The New York State Archives holds over 10,000 cubic feet of records of trial and appellate courts, dating from the 1660s to the 1990s. They are not online. This page describes what they have.

A guide to the few orphanage records in the collection of The Buffalo History Museum. These are the only items in their collection that identify children by name in any of Buffalo’s orphan homes. They are not digitized or online and must be used in person. The links provide greater bibliographic detail about each source.

The book, published in 1971, is offline and lacked in index. So we did an index and put the index online.

Grosvenor Room, BUffalo & Erie County Public Library