Notice: To use the maps found on this web page, you must have Microsoft Streets & Trips installed on your computer. I'm not trying to sell this product for Microsoft, but it's very useful and reasonably priced.
This page contains links to maps I have created using Microsoft Streets & Trips 2003 (I have not upgraded to the 2004 version yet, but the maps here should work with it). Right now there are only two maps here, but I hope to add more in the near future. To download one of them, right-click on its link and choose your browser's "Save as ..." or "Save Target As ..." option.
The intent of these maps is to use Streets &Trips' "Find a location" function to find addresses within the City of Buffalo, and immediately have a visual clue as to which enumeration district to search for census information. If you're unfamiliar with searching for Census information, here's a really quick explanation: Buffalo, like many other cities, used to be divided into political entities known as "Wards". These wards were further subdivided into "Enumeration Districts" to help organize the collecting and organizing of census data. Sites such as Ancestry.Com typically group census images into web pages based on these enumeration districts, and knowing which one to look in will cut down your search time a lot. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to figure out which one to examine, as the boundary descriptions can be confusing, and sometimes involve geographic or political features which do not exist on modern maps.
When you first load a map, it will look like a mess, but if you start searching for street addresses the usefulness will (hopefully) become clear. Sometimes, a picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words, or at least a good supplement to my clumsy descriptions. I've started with the 1900 and 1910 censuses, as they are not yet indexed on Ancestry.Com and therefore involve a lot of manual searching:
A few notes about the above:
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