BuffaloResearch.com: Vital Records

Here is a list compiled from early muster records of the 155th New York, Companies I and K, which came from Buffalo, New York.

Grand Army of the Republic, Buffalo

A detailed guide to finding online and offline wills and estate papers in Buffalo and Erie County, NY, broken down by date of death.

Procedures

Names of civilians and soldiers who died during the burning of Buffalo and Black Rock in the War of 1812

The Buffalo History Museum

Excavations and construction on UB South Campus have periodically uncovered skeletal remains and remnants of wooden coffins. Historians believe that these were the result of burials of residents of the Erie County Poor House, which operated on the site of UB’s South Campus from 1851-1913.

A.L. Benedict

First settlers of what is now Buffalo & the 8 counties of Western New York

Family bible kept by Mary Ann (Durrant) Larkin Hoag (1819-1909)

Eaton, Sylvester

Includes naturalization records such as Petitions for Naturalization, Declarations of Intention, and Oaths of Allegiance filed in the United States District and Circuit Courts of New York from 1824 to 1991

Franklin Square cemetery was the first in Buffalo. The plot was obtained by land contract from the Holland Land Company and was owned by the village of...

Handwritten marriages possibly copied from the church's own records, 1840-1849, from the First Universalist Church of Buffalo, NY.

Performed by Humphrey Smith, a Justice of the Peace, in the towns of Collins, Concord, and Eden, New York, 1838-1845

Lafayette Presbyterian Church

Two typescript files: a list in chronological order of soldiers who died at the Williamsville, NY hospital during the War of 1812, and a list of soldiers who...