Kate: > I found the following information at the Erie County Real Property Tax > Services website http://www.erie.gov/depts/finance/webprop/index.asp -->> Wow! Thanks for the link and the great idea in general, Kate. :) I just spent some time there - putting in street addresses I have from Buffalo City directories circa 19-teens and 1920s "just to see". The house where my gr-grandparents lived from 1900 or so forward at 191 Sherman Street (that I found on those Sanborn maps) didn't bring up anything. Since the history pages I found for other pages went back to the 1970s at the latest - perhaps that house/building is simply gone now? Went back and did same for next generation street addresses and for address where my gr-grandparents lived in the 1880s/1890s. In the latter case, the house at that address now was built in the 1920s. (So I know if I visit again - and went there to take a photo - it's not their house! lol) Have same question re: "before 1970s" in this database. Tried another way - and put in surnames only of those any of the females married from my main line. Found possiblities for current "cousins" and in one case, found one I know is related but have never met or contacted. Just know the name. So have an address to write now. No time at the moment, but can see I'll need to do some rummaging around at other county (or town) sites for property tax databases. Thanks for the heads up, Kate! :) Deb (in rainy and windy northern California)

Best to approach the "date built" records in this database with a large dose of skepticism. According to this database, my house was built in 1910 but I have a copy of the 1896 building permit for it and the 1900 census showing the family who lived in it. Old houses across Buffalo are routinely dated as 1900 in this database, as if houses were rarely in built in any other year. I'd be interested to hear if anyone searching it gets a year built that doesn't end in zero, especially for houses built before the computer era. Our good civil servants may have just aimed for the approximate decade. --- D S <[email protected]> wrote: > Kate: > > I found the following information at the Erie County Real > Property Tax > > Services website > http://www.erie.gov/depts/finance/webprop/index.asp > > -->> Wow! Thanks for the link and the great idea in general, > Kate. :) > > I just spent some time there - putting in street addresses I > have from > Buffalo City directories circa 19-teens and 1920s "just to > see". The > house where my gr-grandparents lived from 1900 or so forward > at 191 > Sherman Street (that I found on those Sanborn maps) didn't > bring up > anything. Since the history pages I found for other pages > went back > to the 1970s at the latest - perhaps that house/building is > simply > gone now? > > Went back and did same for next generation street addresses > and for > address where my gr-grandparents lived in the 1880s/1890s. In > the > latter case, the house at that address now was built in the > 1920s. > (So I know if I visit again - and went there to take a photo - > it's > not their house! lol) > > Have same question re: "before 1970s" in this database. > > Tried another way - and put in surnames only of those any of > the > females married from my main line. Found possiblities for > current > "cousins" and in one case, found one I know is related but > have never > met or contacted. Just know the name. So have an address to > write > now. > > No time at the moment, but can see I'll need to do some > rummaging > around at other county (or town) sites for property tax > databases. > > Thanks for the heads up, Kate! :) > > Deb > (in rainy and windy northern California) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* 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)