So, you've tried every search engine in the land, with no luck. Time to admit the possibility that what you're looking for isn't on the Net. Your ancestors are not online unless someone first found them on paper and put them online. For more information about what isn't online, apart from piecemeal individual efforts, see:
The Past Is Not Online
Here are some places to identify offline sources:
- Family History Library Catalog will identify various kinds of records, usually on microform, that you can request at your local LDS Family History Center
- WorldCat is a single catalog for 1 billion items in 10,000 libraries.
And what is online? Well, folks, that's what this entire site is about! What is online for genealogy in Western NY are mostly small-scale transcribing and indexing efforts by private individuals, and when I discover them, I link to them. So explore the rest of the our pages to see what is online.
To sum up: The past will come online--usually for a price.