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

An excellent resource for denominational histories, splits, mergers, name changes, etc.

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

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.

Full text of the book from ca. 1910

Full text of the book from ca. 1910

Synagogue Records of the Jewish Archives of Greater Buffalo. Records of Congregation B'rith Sholem (Pine Street Shul) and Temple Sinai include account books, record books, receipt and memo pads, photographs, deeds, correspondence, committee minutes, and bulletins.

A list of Episcopal churches that no longer exist and what became of them

Lists what kinds or records are preserved and how to access them.

This is a list of names found in the index of a history of St. Louis Roman Catholic Church. That book is "Gothic Grandeur: A Rare Tradition In American Catholicism, an Historical Narrative of the Administrative Life of the Mother Church of the Diocese of Buffalo, New York." By E. Eugene Miller, PhD. Canisius College Press, c2003.

Index of names extracted from records book 1879-1908.

In 1867, Rev.Chrysostom, the second pastor of Fourteen Holy Helpers', took a census of the parish community. The information contained below is given as shown in this census. The spelling of some family names may be slightly different that by which we know the descendants today.

As published in "Manual of the North Presbyterian Church"

As published in "Manual, Catalog & History of the Lafayette St. Presbyterian Church of Buffalo, N. Y."

Baptisms, marriages, and deaths from 1849-1899

This book is not online and can be found in several libraries