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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.

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.

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

What kind of archival records exist and who has them

The records of District 4 are at Penn State. Here is a lengthy list of what they have. An in-person visit is needed to view the records.

This article originally appeared in "Business, Institution, and Organization Records" by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG, CGL, and Ann Carter Fleming, CG, CGL in "The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy."

The records of Bethlehem Steel, formerly Lackawanna Steel, are in the Hagley Museum, Wilmington, DE. They are vast and are not digitized or online. An in-person visit is required to access them.

Grownups and kids alike have had a certain fascination with the railroads, and genealogists have a similar desire to know if any of their ancestors played a role in the development of the American railways. Tracking down employment records from the railroad companies can be a serious challenge.

Published in 1892 as an extra census publication

Shows which regiments (units) recruited on which Indian reservations

Reprinted from the "Handbook of American Indians" 1906

Explains the gradual inclusion of Indians in Federal Censuses in the 19th century

Names of soldiers, 1837-1846

Shows which regiments (units) were recruited from which cities and towns in Erie County, NY, with links to unit histories

Ariel Riger-Aberg's piece on Ardmore Place

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

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?”

A four-part series

Advice from the NY State Department of Health

Public art in or owned by the City of Buffalo: monuments, sculpture, decorative objects, paintings, photographs. Has two PDFs listing various objects.

Public art in or owned by the City of Buffalo: monuments, sculpture, decorative objects, paintings, photographs. Has a web page for every object. This capture is from 2007 and may no longer be current.

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

This private foundation funds the erection of the familiar yellow & blue roadside markers in New York State.

This database consists of records of employees of the Brooklyn and Buffalo offices of the Internal Revenue Service. The records list for each employee name, title, address, compensation, appointment date, reason for termination of service, place and year of birth, prior civilian or military service, and names of relatives employed by the Federal government.

Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of New York. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the Family History Library and FamilySearch Centers. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

Transcribed by Kasia Dane, © 2013. Any errors or omissions when compared to the original microfilmed copy are my own and either unintentional or determined by desired format. Some page numbers are missing in the original record and thus, are not listed here

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

Records from about a dozen Buffalo/WNY churches are indexed here

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