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.
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.
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.
Fourteen Holy Helpers Parish Census, West Seneca, NY, 1867
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.
Index to New York State Births Outside of New York City, 1881-1942
This birth index is sorted by year, and then alphabetically by surname within each year. Births that occurred in Buffalo, Albany, and Yonkers are not included until about 1914, as these cities maintained their own files. The town of birth is listed, although sometimes shown as an abbreviation, as is the certificate number. Courtesy of Reclaim the Records.
Holland Land Company records at Cornell University
Account books for the Ellicottville Office in Cattaraugus County; correspondence and records including amounts paid on principal and interest, general expenditures, notes on improvements, and other material including land contracts and deed books for Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, and Wyoming Counties. Includes records kept by purchasers of Holland Land Company holdings Nicholas Devereux and Co., Utica, N.Y. and the Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., New York City.
Books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920.
27th Division World War II Men who were federalized in 1940
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.
Located on the south side of Aero Road, west of Youngs Road, between Transit Road and Wehrle Drive, Cheektowaga, Erie County, New York. Also known as the Creek Road / Garrison Road Cemetery.
