Genealogy & Local History in Buffalo, NY
Online City
Directories - In case it isn't obvious, the little elves at BuffaloResearch.com do not own any Buffalo city directories. Instead, we watch for when other people digitize them for free. Then we collect the links here for your convenience.
- We
include social and business directories, when we find them online in
full text
- If you discover online Buffalo city directories not listed here, please let us know.
- Our other page on city directories shows you what directories are still offline, when directories were first published for the towns and villages of Erie County, and who owns them in hard copy.
Buffalo
directories | Year
& Link |
Notes |
| 1828 |
A
text file with names and addresses. This is Buffalo's first
city
directory. The next one came out in 1832. |
| 1832 |
Page
scans from the original directory at DistantCousin.com |
| 1832 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1832 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1842 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1842 |
Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust. |
| 1844 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1844 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1848 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1848 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1849-50 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Hathi Project |
| 1849-50 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1850-51 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1850-51 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1851-52 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1852 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1853 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1853 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1854 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1854 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1855 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1855 |
Business directory only. Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1855 | Business directory only. Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1858 | Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1859 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1859 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1860 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1860 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1861 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1861 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1862 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1863 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1864 |
Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1864 | Page scans from the original directory at Archive.org |
| 1865 |
Page
scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1869 |
Page
scans from the original directory at DistantCousin.com |
| 1870 | Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1873 | Page scans from the original directory at Hathi Trust |
| 1873 | Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1883 |
Page
scans from the Buffalo
Address Book & Family Directory
at WNYlegacy.org, limited to
middle & upper class families |
| 1884 | Page scans from the original directory at Google Books |
| 1884 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1887 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1888 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1890 |
Incomplete.
East
Side names have been culled by volunteers and listed here |
| 1890 | Searchable at Ancestry.com. You get last name and first name but not address or occupation unless you have a membership. |
| 1890 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1892 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1894 |
Page scans from the Buffalo Address Book & Family Directory at WNYlegacy.org, limited to middle & upper class families |
| 1915 | Pages scans from the Bell Telephone Directory for Buffalo |
| 1918 | Social Register, Summer edition. See pp. 590-600 for names & summer homes of of wealthy Buffalonians |
| 1919 | Social Register, Summer edition. See pp. 618-626 for names & summer homes of of wealthy Buffalonians |
| 1920 | Blue Book of Buffalo Commerce, the directory of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce |
| 1920 | Social Register, Summer edition. See pp. 674-682 for names & summer homes of of wealthy Buffalonians |
Erie
County & Western New
York directories | Year & Link | Notes |
| 1871 | Classified Business Directory, Erie County from Asher & Adams atlas at NYPL.org |
| 1880 | Western New York Gazetteer & Business Directory. Very slow-loading PDF. |
| 1902-03 | Johnson's Business and Professional Directory of Buffalo, Rochester, Erie, Niagara Falls, Lockport, Tonawanda, Batavia, Hamburg, Dunkirk, WIlliamsville, Geneva, Lyons, Canandaigua, and Lancaster, N.Y. [etc.]. Very slow-loading PDF. |
| 1917 |
Farm Journal Illustrated
Rural Directory. Names
are gradually being transcribed online by a volunteer. |
| 1924 |
Erie County Directory
online
in "limited preview" at Google Books, meaning that not all pages are
visible |
Updated
21 July 2010