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St. John's is now part of St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church. Some volumes include index. Contains baptisms 1845-1854, confirmations 1845-1854, communicants 1846-1858, marriages 1845-1854, deaths 1845-1854, baptisms 1855-1868, confirmations 1855-1868, communicants 1856-1869, marriages 1855-1868, deaths 1855-1869, baptisms 1869-1886, confirmations 1870-1885, communicants 1882-1885, marriages 1869- 1885, deaths 1869-1885, baptisms 1886-1911, confirmations 1886- 1910, communicants 1882-1906, marriages 1885-1909, deaths 1885- 1911, baptisms 1912-1935, confirmations 1911-1935, communicants 1931-1935, marriages 1909-1935, deaths 1911-1935.

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Now part of St. John's-Grace Episcopal Church. Contains history 1824-1924, baptisms 1825-1858, confirmations 1826- 1857, communicants 1824-1857, marriages 1829-1877, deaths 1855- 1873, families 1860-1881, baptisms 1825-1882, confirmations 1826- 1881, communicants 1824-1882, marriages 1829-1883, deaths 1825- 1882, baptisms 1882-1893, confirmations 1882-1893, communicants 1883-1884, marriages 1883-1893, deaths 1882-1893, baptisms 1893-1924, confirmations 1893-1924, marriages 1893-1922, deaths 1893-1924.

Contains history of the church 1844-1946; record of probationers including a few deaths 1869-1925, 1930-1936; class record including deaths 1869-1909; alphabetical record of members in full connection including deaths 1873-1948; record of official members 1867-1889; baptisms 1869-1941; marriages 1869-1946; appendix with a few deaths 1881-1883, 1902-1904. Before 1906 the Methodist Episcopal Church at Williamsville was known as the Williamsville and Bowmansville Charge.

Includes list of pastors; births and baptisms 1844-1880, 1829-1865, 1880-1932; confirmations; communicants; marriages 1843-1932; deaths 1844-1933.

Features the Church of the Good Shepherd, Cattaraugus Territory; Register of the Seneca Mission, 1822 and 1823

Parish registers, 1931-2004

Parish registers, 1847-1950

Baptisms & marriages, 1862-1990

Marriages, baptisms 1896-1952

Baptisms, 1946-1948; membership rolls, 1893-1990s.

Membership rolls, 1864, 1970-1992; baptisms and marriages ,1945-1965. The church celebrated its bicentennial in 2016.

Membership rolls and registers from 1933-1992

This collection is not digitized or online. The link opens a guide documenting the religious and community activities of Temple Beth Zion synagogue. Includes photographs, ledgers, scrapbooks, correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, flyers, certificates, architectural drawings and special format or oversize materials dating from 1864 to 2008. Includes materials created by auxiliaries, religious school, leadership, administration and clergy.

This collection is not digitized or online. The link opens up a guide to the collection.

Beginning at the end of the 19th century, Polish immigrants began settling into Niagara Falls, NY. Inspired to have a worship-site in their own language, local parishioners secured funds for the purchase of a property in the city’s East side. On May 27, 1902 the newly formed Roman Catholic Church was dedicated by Bishop Quigley. As membership increased, a larger house of worship became necessary. Constructed by the Braas Brothers Company Building Contractors, the church celebrated its first mass in the newly erected building in 1906. Holy Trinity Church features Romanesque Revival influence...

Mostly construction records and guest books

Includes birth records, 1900-1910 and 1956.

This congregation dates back to 1843.

Includes parish registers from 1857-2001.

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.

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.

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

An excellent resource for denominational histories, splits, mergers, name changes, etc.

A list of the microfilmed church records in the Research Library at the Buffalo History Museum. Links added where available, but most are still offline.

Quaker church records

Images of baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials from St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Buffalo, New York. Only burial records go beyond the 1950s. This collection is being published as images become available.

Full text of the book from ca. 1910

Full text of the book from ca. 1910