Genealogy Tips for Researching the Ethnic Communities of the East Side
Niagara Falls, New York
Michelle Ann Kratts
Niagara Falls Public Library
May 30, 2015
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Check for any family records, photos, documents, etc.
Interview family members
Scope the neighborhoods
Census (Ancestry.com) (go line by line for glimpse of the neighborhood)
Immigration (Ancestry.com)
Passports (Ancestry.com)
BMD (Birth/Marriage/Death) (check locality, clerk)
Directories (libraries, Ancestry.com)
Naturalization (Niagara County historian beginning 1836)
Church Records (onsite, local libraries, microfilm)
Monroe Fordham (Niagara Falls area churches) (www.monroefordham.com)
Burial/Cemetery Records (onsite, local libraries, microfilm,
www.findagrave.com)
Records of the International Institute (Lewiston Public Library/Pete Ames)
DNA Testing
Facebook Groups
Familysearch microfilm (Lewiston Public Library and your local FHC)
www.familysearch.org
Familysearch online database New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848;
1908-1936
Various family history sites
Il Portale Antenati (35 state archives of Italy available thru site)
http://www.antenati.san.beniculturali.it/en
Using historic newspapers (Polish newspaper-Polish Weekly
Review/Przeglad Tygodniowy) NF Public Library, www.fultonhistory.com)
General Haller (microfilm, www.familysearch.org, Lewiston Library)
World Name Profiler (www.worldnames.publicprofiler.org)
Local Genealogy Societies
Heritage societies such as the Cristoforo Colombo Society
Polish Genealogical Society of New York State (PGNYS)
The Evolution of an Ethnic Neighborhood that Became United in Diversity;
the East Side, Niagara Falls, New York 1880-1930 by H. William Feder, Ph.D.
Census Factfinder (www.factfinder.census.gov)