Epiphany Episcopal Church of Niagara Falls
Includes parish registers from 1857-2001.
Public
Delaware Avenue Baptist Church
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.
Church of the Redeemer Episcopal of Niagara Falls
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.
Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church of Niagara Falls
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
History Hub
History Hub is a crowdsourcing platform sponsored by the National Archives. It is a place to share information, work together, and find people based on their experience and interests. Experts from the National Archives as well as other experts, history enthusiasts, and citizen archivists are available to help with your research.
Genealogy - Seneca Nation of Indians
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.
Memoirs of My Recording and Traveling Experiences for the Victor Talking Machine Company
Narrative by Harry O. Sooy includes his experiences at the Pan-American as an exhibitor for the Victor Co.
American Memorials Directory: New York
County-by-county list of war memorials and monuments in New York State
Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative | Finding Aids at Your Fingertips
Searchable guides to letters, diaries, personal papers, company records & other one-of-a-kind archival stuff in repositories across NY State.
Buffalo History Museum - Google My Business Dashboard
Get your business on Google for free with Google My Business
Court Records in the New York State Archives
The New York State Archives holds over 10,000 cubic feet of records of trial and appellate courts, dating from the 1660s to the 1990s. They are not online. This page describes what they have.
The Mighty Chain: A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives (1992)
All of the records of the planning, funding, design, construction, repair, expansion, and administration of the Erie Canal are in the New York State Archives. Here is a PDF about what they have.
Orphan Home Records
A guide to the few orphanage records in the collection of The Buffalo History Museum. These are the only items in our collection that identify children by name in any of Buffalo’s orphan homes. They are not digitized or online and must be used in person. The links provide greater bibliographic detail about each source.
Erie County Surrogates Court: Information for Genealogists
Instructions for requesting copies of an ancestor's will and estate papers
Index of "Men of Medicine" by The Buffalo History Museum
The book, published in 1971, is offline and lacked in index. So we did an index and put the index online.
Commission on Quality of Care Archives | NYS Justice Center
An excellent table listing studies and reports from state hospitals in New York starting in 1978, with links to online, full-text editions. Includes Buffalo Psychiatric Center.
Family Care for the Mentally Ill: The Unfilled Promise, a Report
Focuses on the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, issued by the New York (State). State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, 1979. Online in full text and available in hard copy in several libraries.
A Review of Living Conditions in Nine New York State Psychiatric Centers
Includes Buffalo Psychiatric Center. Published May 1984.
Erie County Penitentiary Records Are Now in Ancestry
Various New York State prison records are now available for research in Ancestry.com. To access Erie County records, search for this title in Ancestry’s Card Catalog: New York, Governor's Registers of Commitments to Prisons, 1842-1908. Erie…
Erie County Penitentiary Prisoner Identification Cards
Listed here are the names of 1,025 inmates at the Erie County Penitentiary from 1896 to 1914. The majority of the pictures date from 1899-1905. We do not know if the collection includes every single person who was committed to the Penitentiary during this date span. These photographs have warped over the years, are not digitized, and may be seen by visiting us in person.
Cholera Deaths, 1854
Index of Cholera Deaths, 1854, kept by Dr. James W. Newman, Buffalo, NY. The original ledger is in the collection of The Buffalo History Museum. Indexed by Roseanne Higgins, PhD, September 2016
A Preliminary Guide to Mental Health Documentary Sources In New York State
What kind of archival records exist and who has them
Annual report of the Board of Visitors of the Buffalo State Hospital to the Department of Mental Hygiene
Shows you libraries which have offline, hard copy editions of the annual reports.
Annual Report of the Department of Mental Hygiene
A handful of volumes are online in full text. Includes reports from the Buffalo State Hospital.
Annual report ... State of New York State Hospital Commission.
Includes reports from the Buffalo State Hospital. Full text available for years 1889-1922.
Annual report of the Board of Visitors of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center
Years 1909-1917 are online in full text.
Social Explorer
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States. We provide thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790. Formerly known as the Historical Census Browser from the U. of Virginia.
Courier-Express Photograph Morgue Collection Subject Inventory List
A guide to 65,000 black & white photographs from the Courier-Express newspaper, ca. 1960-1982, in the collection of Butler Library, Buffalo State College.
Society for History in the Federal Government - history@fedgov
An Educational Portal to Federal History, Historical Resources, and Historical Programs
New York Slavery Records Index
A growing database of people who were enslaved in New York State, as well as those who enslaved them.