The Grosvenor Room at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

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Contact Information
Address: 1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203 Telephone: (716) 858-8900

Email: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/contact-us/email-us

Hours of Operation: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/library-locations/central  Directions/Parking Map: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/library-locations/directions-central-library

Website: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/grosvenor Blog: https://grogenealogylocalhistory.wordpress.com/ 

Description of Collections
The Grosvenor Room (pronounced Grove-ner) is the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library’s Special Collections department. Located in the Central Library in downtown Buffalo, NY,  Grosvenor collections include genealogy, local history, and music resources, as well as rare books.

The Grosvenor Room is the premiere genealogical destination in Western New York and holds a wealth of information on all things Buffalo and Erie County. The focus of the collection is on Buffalo and Erie County, however, it includes resources related to other New York counties, states, and foreign countries. The collection is composed of the following resources:


 * 25,000 local history volumes
 * 5,500 genealogies
 * 850+ census microfilms for Erie County, Western New York, and a few other states
 * Local history scrapbooks and vertical files
 * 100s of city directories and phone books
 * The New York State Vital Records Index and a limited collection of local vital records
 * 110 drawer card index, the Local History File, about people, places, and things in Western NY
 * 110+ reels of local church and cemetery records on microfilm
 * 55+ subscriptions to genealogical and local history periodicals
 * 28 local newspapers on microfilm
 * Maps and atlases
 * Military histories and rosters
 * Ethnic research resources, indices to passenger lists, immigrant ships information, English parish records
 * General resources such as how-to books and surname dictionaries
 * Genealogical society collections

Genealogy databases: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/research#Genealogy

Digital collections: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/digital-collections

Library catalog: https://bepl.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/default

Tips for Your Visit
https://www.buffalolib.org/content/grosvenor/visiting-us

Guides
There are many guides to the Grosvenor Room's Collections. Some of the most popular guides are listed below. For more choices, see the Grosvenor Room's web page: https://www.buffalolib.org/content/grosvenor/guides-publications

Church Records

Cemetery Records

City Directories

Early Genealogy Sources for Buffalo & Erie County

Ethnic and Immigrant Genealogy

Genealogy Resources in the Grosvenor Room

House History

Newspapers

Vital Records

Yearbooks


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