General Resource Links
Blogs and more
- Buffalo Architecture created by Chuck LaChiusa, a researcher and tour guide
- Buffalo Stories created by Steve Cichon, a broadcaster and author
- Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time created by Angela Keppel, an urban planner.
- BuffaloResearch.com: Research Buffalo Ancestors and Buildings created by Cynthia Van Ness, a librarian and author.
- Explore Buffalo, tours about Buffalo’s architecture, history, and neighborhoods.
- Forgotten Buffalo, a mix of tours and history
- Forgotten Buffalo: Wildroot Factory
- Forgotten Buffalo: Riverside Mens Shop
- Forgotten Buffalo: Mastmans Kosher Deli
- Forgotten Buffalo: Buffalo Broadcasting
- Historic Department stores (LLBerger)
- Historic grocery stores (Park Edge)
- Jewish Buffalo Images
- Preservation (Jefferson Street Shul) by David Torke Photography
- Preserve Buffalo Niagara, preservation organization
News and Journals
NATIONAL JEWISH HISTORY RELATED WEBSITES
- The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive
- Jewish American Heritage Month
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Synagogue Records of America Search Portal
- Jewish Women’s Archive
- Leo Baeck Institute
- Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary
- National Museum of American Jewish History
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yeshiva University Museum
- Yiddish Book Center
LOCAL LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS
- Buffalo History Museum. An indispensable resource of many collections, both virtual and physical, and many online databases.
- Buffalo History Museum Genealogy Basics
- Buffalo History Museum list of private for hire researchers
- Buffalo and Erie County Library. The libraries offer many virtual guides and links to resources. Specific Guide
- Buffalo State College Archives Courier Express Archives. This collection has multiple search lists including “People” which identifies thousands of names
- University at Buffalo, Jewish Buffalo Archives. Many of the 65 collections include genealogical information
- Jewish Buffalo Images Online (NY Heritage.org). Created as a joint effort of the Jewish Buffalo Archives Project and the University at Buffalo
- Williamsville Family History Center, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Margaret L. Wendt Archive and Resource Center
CEMETERY, OBITUARY AND FUNERAL RELATED RESOURCES
- Erie County Cemeteries, Past and Present
Includes a growing list of tombstone inscriptions and internment lists, all contributed by volunteers - Erie County Cemeteries, Past and Present Cheektowaga
- JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
(Note: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Buffalo has contributed extensively to this database with images of individual headstones for several local Jewish cemeteries) - Billion Graves
- Find a Grave User-entered information from gravestones around the country.
- Amherst Memorial Chapel, LLC
- Mesnekoff Funeral Home, Inc
- Buffalo Jewish Obituary Notices
- Buffalo News Obituary Notices