As you may know quite a number of families immigrated to Polonia, MB from Buffalo, NY. Families such as Dreveski (Drzewiecki), Gutoski, Kozorowski, Lewandoski, Levandoski, Kozorowski, Miscavish (Umieszkiewicz), Nagorski, Netzel, Nowak / Novak, Ostrowski, Speiss (Spis), Strelczik (Strelczyk), Swiscoski (Szwierczkowski), Szucki, Turchinski (Turzinski), Wahoski (Wachowski), Wolnik and Zynger (Zangierski / Zyngierski) all left Buffalo to come to Polonia (Huns Valley) mostly in the late part of the 19th cen and the early part of the 20th.

The following two websites have some records from Buffalo and may provide a glimpse into your family’s genealogical history.

The first website is the webpage of Kasia Dane (who has transcribed some Polish records from Buffalo, NY and St. Stanislaus Church. (http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~transcriptions/genealogy/buffalochurchrecordspage.htm) .

Among the records Kasia has transcribed, are marriage records from 1874 to 1913. Almost at once, perusing the volumes you can see familiar names jump out at you. This 1892 record is the transcribed marriage of Frank Sr and Mary Lewandoski who immigrated to Polonia around 1898.

The baptismal records are not extracted, but Kasia has a nice listing of names with the volume and page number of the entry. If you think this is your ancestor you can write to the church and request this record.

The second website https://gravefinderatststans.com/ is the website compiled by Barbara Noreck Ruppert. She has compiled a collection of images and maps of the St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Barbara has indexed, transcribed, mapped and photographed over 75,500 burials so far. This is just information from the cemetary. (The 3×5 cards that contain additional information are to be found at St. Stanislaus Church and you must contact them) . If your relatives has loved ones pass away before they emmigrated to Canada, perhaps they were buried here.

An example would be Mrs Thomas Wahoski (Francis). After her husband died, she moved back to Buffalo and passed away there in 1947. A partial image of the transcription of her gravestone is thus and gives your her birth and death dates as they were noted on her stone.

To support their project, you can also get a photo of the gravestone for $5.00.

These are both wonderful resources if your ancestors stopped off in Buffalo before making their way to Polonia.