BuffaloResearch.com: Vital Records

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Brought to you by FamilySearch.org. Searchable by name.

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

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

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

A chart of state and federal censuses for New York State, with links to those which are online

Scans directly from the microfilm, with no name-search capability. Finding a person means reading page by page.

Copy of the census taken in 1698, the original of which is kept in the New York State Library. Includes only the eastern portion of New York State.

Scans directly from the microfilm, with no name-search capability. Finding a person means reading page by page.

This is the nation's first census. Heads of families are listed by name; everyone else in the household is counted with hash marks in various age/sex/race categories. In 1790, there wasn't a lot of settlement west of the Hudson River. Census takers did not come to what is now Buffalo until 1810.

This index (of surnames of heads of households only) was made many years ago for the Cattaraugus County Museum at Little Valley, NY and has been digitized by a team of Cattaraugus County researchers. There will be errors, given the difficulty in deciphering some of the handwriting of the original census records.

Just the 8 counties of Western NY, undertaken by the Western NY Genealogical Society.

A text file by P.D. Smith

A text file by P.D. Smith

Downloadable forms which show which questions were asked.

Compiled by a volunteer

Compiled by a volunteer, focuses on Ward 10

June P. Zintz and Glenn R.P. Atwell, courtesy of the Wayback Machine

This page lists families found in the census records of Alden and Darien, arranged alphabetically.

Names of heads of households in the counties of Western NY, once known as the "burned over district" because of religious passions.

Need to identify what Enumeration (or Election) District your ancestor lived in to order the correct census microfilm? Try this tool.

A history of the burial ground in Boston, NY by Keith Kaszubik, town historian

Searchable archives, images, and objects.

Compiled by Gertrude Barber in 1930

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Courtesy of FamilySearch.org. You will need to register for a free account. East Hamburgh is now known as Orchard Park.

These are the people who handle burials of the indigent in Buffalo and Erie County.

Free Erie County, New York cemetery records online in an easy to use cemetery directory. Good list of the hundreds of cemeteries & burial grounds in Buffalo & Erie County.

Contents: French Settlement Cemetery First German Baptist Church - Index of members Tonawanda City Cemetery - INDEX of surnames Salem Church Cemetery - INDEX of surnames St Francis Roman Catholic Cemetery - INDEX of surnames A-G St Francis Roman Catholic Cemetery - INDEX of surnames H-O St Francis Roman Catholic Cemetery - INDEX of surnames P-Z Salem Church Death Records - INDEX

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