Posted By:	Glenn Atwell
	Email:
	Subject:	Re: Cemetery & Buffalo New York
	Post Date:	March 16, 2009 at 20:40:33
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/erie/messages/3792.html
	Forum:	Erie County, NY Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ny/erie/

There are so many variables in finding her in a cemetery that the most obvious and direct method would be to send for her death certificate at the Vital Statistics Bureau in City Hall. There is a space for the name of the burial site on the certificate. There are many, many local cemeteries for people who died in Buffalo, and people here were buried according to their religion, different ethnicities even within religious groups, social class, etc. Even if the certificate gives only "Pine Hill," where there are 20+ cemeteries in the Town of Cheektowaga, just outside the Buffalo city line, the religious & ethnic variables would narrow that down to one or maybe two cemeteries there. There were other cemeteries for Buffalonians not only in the city itself e.g. Forest Lawn, but also in Cheektowaga, Tonawanda, Lackawanna, and even Hamburg (Lakeside Cemetery aka Buffalo Rural Cemetery.) If she was staying in a hotel, was she a permanent resident or a guest? She may even have been shipped elsewhere for burial. I hope this helps, Regards, Glenn Atwell