The website given below is the City of Buffalo, Inactive Records Center. The staff is very helpful with the records that they have - but they are only the City of Buffalo and somewhat limited. The birth indexes are useful to look through for early years 1878-1914 - much easier than microfilm. Parking at the Inactive Records Center is free and convenient. The Center is in a renovated warehouse park with parking at the address 85 River Rock Drive. But if you want to get the birth certificates and marriage certificates - there are many of these on microfilm at the downtown location of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Lafayette Square. There are not indexes for these so you need to have a pretty good idea of the date. Also at the downtown library is a copy of the New York state indexes on microfiche for birth, marriage and death - These include Erie County events for the early years 1880-1914 BUT not the city of buffalo until after 1914. The Erie County Clerk's office and the Erie County Surrogate Court office are at the Erie County Hall 92 Franklin Street which also has an entrance on Delaware Avenue. If you want probate files from the Surrogate's office, go and request them first because they are stored off-site and it can take 3 days to get the file. Parking downtown at the Main Place Mall is located in between the Library and the Erie County Hall. Walk a few blocks in different directions to get to each place. Google Main Place Mall, Buffalo, NY and you'll see it on a map. Good Luck with your research. Sheila http://www.erie.gov/depts/government/clerk.phtml http://www.buffalolib.org/libraries/collections/copy%20of%20grosvenor.asp Nancy Archdekin wrote: > At 02:13 PM 4/21/2008, Sara Burkholder wrote: > >> Not knowing the official name of the place that houses old Erie County >> Records, I understand it is off of Delaware Ave.. Can you inform me of what >> is held there(document wise),its location, available parking, & times of >> operation. >> > > I believe you're looking for the Records Center. They have a website > at > http://www.ci.buffalo.ny.us/Home/Leadership/City_Departments/City_Clerk/RecordsManagement > > Nancy > >

Here's a map of downtown parking: http://www.buffaloplace.com/work/graphics/parking.pdf --- slstrick <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > Parking downtown at the Main Place Mall is located in between > the > Library and the Erie County Hall. Walk a few blocks in > different > directions to get to each place. Google Main Place Mall, > Buffalo, NY > and you'll see it on a map. > > Good Luck with your research. > Sheila > > > http://www.erie.gov/depts/government/clerk.phtml > > http://www.buffalolib.org/libraries/collections/copy%20of%20grosvenor.asp *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)