Region
Brief Directory Description
Buffalo, NY obituaries; NYS statewide vital records index
Volunteer Research Description
I can do lookups at the Buffalo & Erie County Library. Notably local newspaper archives and the NYS statewide vital record index.
See http://www.buffalolib.org/content/grosvenor/genealogy-collection for a description of the resources available and http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_topics_gen_vitalstats.shtml for a description of the NYS vital record index.