BuffaloResearch.com: Vital Records

From the New York State Archives

All 200 rolls of Holland Land Company records on microfilm are digitized, courtesy of FamilySearch.org. Scroll down to the tiny camera icons on the right. You will need to sign up for a free account.

Part of the Mt. Calvary Cemetery Group in Cheektowaga, NY. Courtesy of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.

More advice on where to look

In the Smithsonian Institution. They are not digitized or online.

Over 2,000,000 men enlisted for part or all of 1860-1865. These records do include some Indian Soldiers, and listed as Indian, others are listed with the

Curtiss-Wright's business records are in the Smithsonian. They are not digitized or online, but there is an online finding aid/inventory.

U.S. immigration officials did not regulate the presence of alien vessel crewmen in the U.S. until 1917. Vessel crew lists for the Great Lakes are available for the 1920s to 1970s for selected ports, and are part of Record Group (RG) 85, Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Over 6,000 adults who lived in the Buffalo, NY area, mostly prior to 1840. Compiled from multiple sources by Library volunteers.

Iroquois Genealogy Society. Our mission is to encourage interest in the genealogy of the Hodinöhsö:ni' (Iroquois) Nations– Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, Tuscarora and associated peoples.

Visiting an archives has something in common with using any public service. In each interaction with a service or a staff person, you’re seeing the small tip of a very large iceberg. Behind-the-sce...

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