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Genealogy and Local History: Resource Guides & Finding AidsArchitecture--Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo
This guide focuses on selected sources that describe, illustrate, or document Wright’s contributions to Buffalo architecture—the built projects, the never-built projects, and projects undertaken after his death.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Architecture--How to Research a Buffalo Building
Resources to help you research a house, mansion, factory, store, church, or neighborhood in Buffalo. Some sources can help you narrow down a building’s age, and identify the first owner, later occupants, and the architect.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Atlases & Maps
Atlases and maps may show the house or land that your ancestor once owned. For architectural researchers, Sanborn maps, also called fire insurance maps, provide the most detail.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Cemetery Records
Lists the Buffalo and Erie County town cemetery records available on microfilm or in print in the Grosvenor Room
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Census Records for New York State
Federal and New York State census records are available in the Grosvenor Room. The collection includes all surviving Erie County census records on microfilm, printed indexes, and searchable databases.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Church Records
The Grosvenor Room has over 90 reels of microfilmed sacramental records and a small number of printed records from Baptist, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Quaker, and United Church of Christ churches in the Western and Central New York area.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids City Directories for Buffalo (Online)
Lists Buffalo City Directories that are available online, either free on the internet
or through AncestryLibrary, a database available at all BECPL libraries.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Civil War resources for Buffalo & Erie County
Sources that provide names of local soldiers and histories of how the communities of Erie County responded to the Civil War (1861-1865).
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Civil War resources for New York State
Will assist those researching Civil War veterans and units in New York State outside of Erie County. Sources include rosters of regiments and numerous regimental histories.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Deaths in Buffalo & Erie County
This guide lists the variety of sources that might help you find your ancestor’s date of death, which in turn might help you find an obituary or death certificate.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--African American
African American genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL include handbooks, manuals, indexes to record compilations, surname directories, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--Canadian
Canadian genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL include handbooks, manuals, indexes to record compilations, passenger lists, border crossings, maps, atlases, and city directories.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--German
German genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL include handbooks, manuals, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, gazetteers, surname directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Irish
Irish genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of
the B&ECPL include handbooks, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, gazetteers, surname directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Italian
Italian genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL include handbooks, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, gazetteers, surname directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Jewish
German genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL include how-to guides, handbooks, holocaust sources, passenger lists, maps, and surname directories.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--Latin American
Hispanic, Latino/Latina, and Caribbean
ancestry resources in the Grosvenor Room of the the B&ECPL include handbooks, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, gazetteers, surname directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Native American
Native American genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the the B&ECPL include handbooks, census records, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, military sources, and newspapers.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Polish
Polish genealogy resources in the Grosvenor Room of the the B&ECPL include handbooks, indexes to record compilations, atlases, maps, gazetteers, surname directories, passenger lists, newspapers, and church records.
Category: Reference > Genealogy Genealogy--Searching Family History: A General Guide to Genealogy Sources
Start here for a list of general “How-to” books, and to discover the types of material useful for family history research. This guide outlines the genealogy resources available in the Grosvenor Room at the Central Library.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--Vital and Related Records (Resources in Print)
Sources for records of births, marriages, deaths, and immigration for Buffalo & New York.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Genealogy--Vital and Related Records (Resources on Microfilm)
Sources for records of births, marriages, deaths, and immigration for Buffalo & New York.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids New York-Paris Race of 1908
Use materials from the Grosvenor Room to follow the race that took a Buffalo made car and its Buffalo born driver from New York to Paris--they were first at the finish line!
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Niagara Movement
The Niagara Movement was a black civil rights organization founded in 1905. Led by W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, the organization opposed racial segregation and disenfranchisement. It was named for the "mighty current" of change the group wanted to effect, and for Niagara Falls, which was near where the first meeting took place.
Category: Genealogy and Local History > Resource Guides & Finding Aids Pan-American Exposition
The Pan-American Exposition, held in Buffalo, New York in 1901, was an international celebration of cultural unity and shared trade interests throughout the Americas. This guide lists resources for the Pan-Am at the BECPL, including general information on the exhibits, material on art and architecture, as well as scrapbooks, maps, and music of the era.
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