Full text of decisions from ca. 1890. The book's front matter is missing.

A short newspaper article from the Provincial Freeman, July 11, 1857

A list of the offline cemetery records in the Research Library at the Buffalo History Museum. These records are on microfilm and in print. An in-person visit is needed to use them.

A list of the microfilmed church records in the Research Library at the Buffalo History Museum. Links added where available, but most are still offline.

Quaker church records

These records are on microfilm and are not online. They must be searched in person at The Buffalo History Museum.

Names of those who died in 1850, as reported to federal census enumerators

Kept by Rev. Frank S. Rowland (1859-1917). Inc;ludes Asbury Methodist Church in Buffalo.

Images of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York. Only burial records go beyond the 1950s. This collection is being published as images become available.

Jonson was an attorney, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad agent in Buffalo, NY. Here is a guide to his diaries, which reside in multiple institutions and are unpublished and undigitized.

This 1857 report is online in full text

These records reside in the New York State Archives. Microfilms of them are owned by some libraries in Upstate NY. Here is the list of owning libraries.

Free aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2010. Excellent tool for historians and city planners.

This book is out of print and is not digitized or online. The WorldCat record shows which libraries own it.

A collection of 454 items, online free in full text at Archive.org. Includes service records of soldiers.

The entire 1940 federal census is online, care of the National Archives.

Written in the 1850s by Mordecai Myers, who spent time on the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812

Index to Holland Land Company buyers. While you can't read the full text, you can search it to see if an ancestral name is included.

While you can't read the book in full text, you can search it to see if an ancestor's name is included

While you cannot read the book online, you can use the Search box to see if a name is found within.

On September 25, 1940, a full year before Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8551 which Ordered Certain Units and Members of the National Guard of the United States Into the Active Military Service of the United States. This included men of the 27th Division, the New York Division. These men reported for duty less than three weeks later when they assembled at their various aromries around the state on October 15, 1940. One collection in the New York State Military Museum is a collection of index cards with the name of every soldier who was called to active duty in the fall of 1940. This collection has 28,969 cards. All names are now indexed online.

Lists battles & skirmishes and the resulting numbers of dead and wounded. Published in 1849 and digitized by Cornell U.

On Seneca nation participation in the war of 1812

This court houses all wills & estate papers filed in Erie County since 1800.

Names of 204 men buried here

As with nearly all early state militias, volunteers in the New York state militia during the War of 1812 provided their own arms and clothing. This database is an index of claims presented to the State of New York for payment of expenses for military clothing and equipment provided by volunteers during the war.

This database is a collection of marriage records from the state prior to 1784. Each record contains the names of both bride and groom and marriage date, with the earliest marriage dating to 1660. Reference information is also provided to aid the researcher in obtaining the original record.

Several New York repositories have formed a partnership with Ancestry.com to digitize family history records and make them available on line for free. The list of records available is located in the bottom right corner of the Ancestry.com New York web page.

Full text of the book from ca. 1910

Full text of the book from ca. 1910