Guides + Publications
The following guides are finding aids to materials located in the Grosvenor Room.
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Adoption
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Adoption & Orphanage Resources for Genealogists and Historians. (pdf)
Adoption (Birth parent) Search: A guide for adoptees in New York State (pdf)
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African American History
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African American Churches in Buffalo (pdf) | Google Map
African-American Genealogy (pdf)
Black History in Buffalo (pdf)
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Architecture and Buildings
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Buffalo Architecture Research (pdf)
Buffalo Theater Research (pdf)
Frank Lloyd Wright in Buffalo (pdf)
New York Central Terminal (pdf)
Building Permits, Buffalo Common Council Proceedings, 1887-1906 (Instructions) (pdf)
Building Permits, Buffalo Common Council Proceedings, 1887-1906 (Index) (pdf)
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Buffalo and Local History
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Biographical Resources for Buffalo and Erie County (pdf)
Black Rock/Riverside: A Selected Bibliograph (pdf)
Buffalo Theater Research (pdf)
Women in Buffalo History (pdf)
Scrapbooks in the Grosvenor Room by Subject (pdf)
The New York to Paris Race of 1908 (pdf)
The Pan-American Exposition (pdf)
Olmsted in Buffalo & Niagara (pdf)
Erie County Poorhouse records, 1829-1952 (pdf)
Erie County Poorhouse records, 1829-1952--Index (pdf)
Performing Artists in Buffalo Photograph Collection, 1890-1976 (pdf) New!
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Business
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Census
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New York Census Microfilms and Indices: Federal & State (pdf)
Contents of the New York State Census 1855-1925 (pdf)
Contents of the US Federal Census 1850-1940 (pdf)
Buffalo Wards by Street 1915 1920 1925 (pdf)
1940 Census - Get Started (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 1 Wards 19 20 21 23 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 10 Wards 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 25 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 11 Wards 6, 7, 9, 10, 13 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 12 Ward 4 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 13 Wards 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 14 Wards 1-3 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 15 Wards 1-3, 6, 7 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 2 Wards 18-20 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 3 Wards 17, 18, 20 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 4 Wards 19-23 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 5 Wards 16, 18-20 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 6 Wards 16-18 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 7 Wards 5, 8,11, 12, 22, 24-27 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 8 Wards 6, 7, 9, 10, 13-15 (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo ED Map 9 Wards 5, 8, 11, 12, 25-27(pf)
1940 Census Buffalo Enumeration District Descriptions (pdf)
1940 Census Buffalo Wards by Street Address (pdf)
1940 Census Extraction Form (pdf)
1940 Census Instructions-to-Enumerators (pdf)
1940 Census Ward and Enumeration District Index Buffalo Maps (pdf)
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Church & Cemetery Records
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African American Churches in Buffalo (pdf) | Google Map
Buffalo Cemetery Single Grave Burials (pdf)
Cemetery Records for Erie County (pdf)
Church Records on Microfilm and Print (pdf)
Church Records by Denomination (pdf)
Church Records by Location (pdf)
Buffalo Churches 1832-1860 (pdf)
Buffalo Churches in 1931 (pdf)
Mount Calvary Cemetery Maps (pdf)
Pine Lawn Cemetery Maps
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Directories
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Buffalo City Directories Online 1832-1913 (pdf)
City and Other Directories in the Grosvenor Room (pdf)
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Ethnic & Immigrant Genealogy
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African-American Genealogy (pdf)
Latin American Genealogy (pdf)
Native American Genealogy (pdf)
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Family History
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Early Genealogy Sources for Buffalo & Erie County (pdf)
Getting Started with Genealogy (pdf)
Genealogy Resources in the Grosvenor Room (pdf)
Genealogy Pamphlets on Microfilm in the Grosvenor Room (pdf)
Erie County Poorhouse records, 1861-1952 (pdf)
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Maps and Atlases
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1866 Erie County Atlas Index (pdf)
Buffalo and Erie County Atlases (pdf)
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Military
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Civil War Resources for Buffalo & Erie County (pdf)
Civil War Resources for New York State (pdf)
Civil War Resources for States Other Than New York (pdf)
Military Resources for Buffalo and Erie County (pdf)
Military History Resources for Areas Other Than Buffalo & Erie County (pdf)
War of 1812 on the Niagara Frontier (pdf)
Erie County Civil War Regiments (pdf)
Newspapers
A Timeline of Selected Buffalo Newspapers, 1818 - to the present (pdf)
Early American Newspapers (pdf)
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Photographs and Illustrations
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Vital and Related Records
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Buffalo Deaths 1882 to 1892 (pdf)
Deaths in Buffalo and Erie County (pdf)
Death Notices and Obituaries (pdf)
Vital and Related Records for Buffalo and Erie County (pdf)
Government Sources of Vital Records (pdf)
A Select Index to the Bellringer 1940 to 1945 (pdf)
A Select Index to the Curtiss WrightER 1943 to 1944 (pdf)
Births Deaths and Marriages Found in Local Publications. (pdf)
Death Notices and Obituaries in the Buffalo News 4-22-2009 to 12-31-2009 by name.pdf (pdf)
Death Notices and Obituaries in the Buffalo News 2010 by name.pdf (pdf)
Marriages and Deaths in the Pierce Arrow Newsletter 1918 to 1922.pdf (pdf)
City of Buffalo Birth Records 1850-1881 Index--Child's Last Name (pdf)
City of Buffalo Birth Records 1850-1881 Index--Date (pdf)
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Yearbooks and School Resources
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High School Year books, College Yearbooks, and School Publications (pdf)
A map of Buffalo high schools in 1917 and 1941