Buffalo Irish Geneological Society (BIGS)

This site maintained by Jim O'Dea [email protected]

Meeting at the Buffalo Irish Center, 245 Abbott Rd., Buffalo, NY 14220


Next BIGS MEETING DATES:
 April 18, 2009 - Saturday, 10:30 AM
July 21, 2009 - Tuesday @ 6:00 PM
October 17, 2009 - Saturday, 10:30 AM
November 7, 2009 - Saturday, 10:30 AM

BIGS was established in 1997 to concentrate all of our members' resources & publications and to maintain a list of these items, thereby establishing a wealth of information that will be available to all of us and obtainable via friendly inter-member networking.

We currently have 125 active members who are enjoying our network. Your are cordially invited to join us and take full advantage of all our resources. As a highly respected non-profit orginization, all membership fees, and donations, are tax deductable.

  • Obtain guidance no matter where you live.
  • Receive bi-monthly issues of: "The Buffalo Irish Times."
  • Submit queries that will also appear on this website. click here.
  • Vote for elected BIGS officials.
  • Assist with special events and projects.

    * Membership Application - To Print off a Membership Application for BIGS in Adobe PDF format click here or for Word Document format click here. If you can't print it just write the requested info on a sheet of paper and mail it in. To print it from Word Document, save it first to your hard drive and then open it in Microsoft Word or similar word processing software and print it. NOTE: It is not necessary to be a member of BIGS in order to attend a meeting here in Buffalo, NY. If you are looking for help, please be sure to bring your all the family information you have. Newcomers are most welcome!

    Resouces: THE GAAA LIBRARY COLLECTION 245 Abbott Rd., Buffalo, NY 14220 Phone: (716) 662-1164 For Appointments Contact: Donna Shine Dmshine @ aol.com (716) 662-1164

    Library hours and Listing of Library's Genealogical Resources click here.

    BIGS Genealogical Projects in progress

  • Holy Cross Cemetery Microfilm Records to Digitized Images Project click here.
  • Holy Cross Cemetery Record Indexing Project click here.

    BIGS Meeting Minutes: click here.

    BIGS Officers: click here.

    BIGS Member Family History links: click here.

    BIGS Member Queries click here.

    BIGS Member Stories of Buffalo's Irish First Ward click here.

    Want to participate in the St Patrick's Day Parade?: click here.

    Various On-line Resource Recommendations: click here.

    Other Genealogical and Buffalo Irish Links:

  • Buffalo Irish Center click here.
  • Buffalo Irish Times Newspaper click here.
  • Buffalo Rootsclick here.
  • The Buffalo Barracks-Descriptive & Historical Enlistment Registers" of 1,690 Regular U.S. Army Soldiers who served at Buffalo 1837-1846:click here.
  • RootsWeb -Free Genealogical Siteclick here.
  • Family History Centers- Free Genealogical Siteclick here.
  • Cyndis Listclick here.
  • Irish Genealogy OnLineclick here.
  • Irish Genealogy Centre click here.
  • OnLine Irish Name Directory click here.
  • Irish Family History Foundation - the coordinating body for a network of county based genealogical research centres on the island of Ireland click here.
  • Shannon Pub- Buffalo,NYclick here.

    If you would like to trade Links with this site please email Jim O'Dea at jeodea @ AOL . com

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