Niagara Area: A Journal of Commerce
The official Buffalo Chamber of Commerce periodical. Most years from 1911-1919 are online in full text.
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Pinterest: Digital Collections at BECPL
Check out how the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is using Pinterest to feature their digital collections
Freedom's Journal: The first African-American newspaper in America
Freedom's Journal was published in New York City. It may have carried news from Buffalo. Two volumes (1827-1829) are online care of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Graphics Atlas
What kind of print or photograph is that? The Graphics Atlas will show you how to tell various image reproduction techniques apart.
Records of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Orphan Home,1865-1961
This book is out of print and is not digitized or online. The WorldCat record shows which libraries own it.
Erie County, N.Y. medical examiner records
List of deaths, 1878-1898, handled by the Medical Examiner's office. Names are in A-Z order. This index is in book form and is not online.
Records relating to War of 1812
A collection of 454 items, online free in full text at Archive.org. Includes service records of soldiers.
Researching a Historic Property
By Eleanor O'Donnell, 1991, revised 1998, free online care of the National Park Service.
New York Art Appraisers
A list of professional art appraisers across the State of New York
Flashes from the Pan: A fantasia in retrospectio and imaginatio
A comic operetta based on the Pan-American Exposition, online in full text
1940 Census
The entire 1940 federal census is online, care of the National Archives.
Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase of Western New York
Full text of the book by Orsamus Turner, 1849
Reminiscences, 1780 to 1814, including incidents in the war of 1812-14...
Written in the 1850s by Mordecai Myers, who spent time on the Niagara Frontier during the War of 1812
Dziennik Dla Wsystkich Death Notice Database
The Dziennik Dla Wsystkich, also known as the Everybodys Daily, was a Polish-language newspaper published in Buffalo, New York from 1911 through 1957. It contains many death notices of local Polish immigrants. The obituaries usually give the persons age, place of birth, as well as names of family members. We are presently in the process of making it possible for users to search the database directly from our website. For right now, to search the database please contact: ekornowski@aol.com.
Western New York land transactions, 1825-1835
Index to Holland Land Company buyers. While you can't read the full text, you can search it to see if an ancestral name is included.
Medical sketches of the campaigns of 1812, 13, 14...
Full text of the book by James Mann published in 1816. Several mentions of Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier.
Quaker census of 1828: members of the New York Yearly Meeting...
While you can't read the book in full text, you can search it to see if an ancestor's name is included
Early New York State census records, 1663-1772
While you can't read the book in full text, you can search it to see if an ancestor's name is included
Free Black heads of households in NY State federal census, 1790-1830
While you can't read the book in full text, you can search it to see if an ancestor's name is included.
Quaker meeting records ... Ontario County, Niagara County
While you can't read the volume in full text, you can search the text to see if your ancestor is included
Early Canadian marriages in Erie County, New York
While you cannot read the book online, you can use the Search box to see if a name is found within.
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.
"Still They Come": Some Eyewitness Accounts of the Underground Railroad in Buffalo."
A peer-reviewed, scholarly article that quotes witnesses and participants in the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, NY., by the director of the Library & Archives at The Buffalo History Museum.
Echoes from the Rainbow City
An unusual memoir of a deaf and blind man's trip to the Pan-American Exposition, including some of his poetry.
Index to certified copy of list of American prisoners of war...
A list of American soldiers who died in Dartmoor Prison during the War of 1812
Table of the killed and wounded in the war of 1812.
Lists battles & skirmishes and the resulting numbers of dead and wounded. Published in 1849 and digitized by Cornell U.
Public speeches, delivered at the village of Buffalo, on the 6th and 8th days of July, 1812, by Hon. Erastus Granger, Indian agent, and Red Jacket, on of the principal chiefs and speakers of the Senaca nation, respecting the part the Six nations woul
On Seneca nation participation in the war of 1812
Narrative of Colonel Samuel Blakeslee, a defender of Buffalo in the war of 1812.
Published in 1905 and digitized by Cornell University
Documents relating to the invasion of the Niagara Peninsula by the United States Army, commanded by General Jacob Brown, in July and August, 1814
Full text of the article from 1920
Reminiscences of the campaign of 1814 on the Niagara Frontier
Full text of the book from 1873