Rhonda Hoffman

Genealogy Specialist, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library

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Non-Research Specialties

Author/Writer

Lecturer/Presenter - On-site

Librarian
Research Counties

Cattaraugus County, New York, United States

Chautauqua County, New York, United States

Erie County, New York, United States

Livingston County, New York, United States
Research Provinces / States

New York, United States
Research Countries

United States
Research Time Periods

18th Century

19th Century

20th Century

New York, United States

Degrees

Bachelor of Arts in History

Master of Library Science
Languages

English
Repositories

Grosvenor Room, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library
Lectures

Lectures link
Publications

State and National Publications:

"County Clerk Miscellaneous Records: They May Be What You're Looking For, " New York Researcher, Spring 2023, p. 9-12.

"Surveying Society Membership: Part 2, Online Surveys," NGS Magazine, Oct/Nov/Dec 2022, p. 55-60.

"Surveying Society Membership: Part 1, Questions," NGS Magazine, Jul/Aug/Sep 2022, p. 60-62.

“County Board of Supervisors Proceedings: A Genealogy Source Revealed,” New York Researcher, Summer 2022, p. 42-45.

"Genealogical Society Publications: Creative and Successful Strategies for Acquiring Content," NGS Magazine, Apr/May/Jun 2022, p. 55-58.

Local Publications:

The Classified column features resources available in the Grosvenor Room, the special collections department of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.

• “Classified: School Days,” The Western New York Genealogist, June 2023, p. 4-7.
• “Classified: Buffalo Magazines: Business, Club, School, and General Interest Publications,” The Western New York Genealogist, September 2022, p. 29-32.
• “Classified: New York State Vital Records Index,” The Western New York Genealogist, June 2022, p. 4-7.
• “Classified: Finding Your Female Ancestors,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, March 2022, p. 100-102.
• “Classified: City Directory Substitutes,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, December 2021, p. 82-85.
• “Classified: Researching Crime and Law Enforcement,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2021, p. 57-60.
• “Classified: Using HeinOnline for Genealogy,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, June 2021, p. 23-25.

“Find Your Ancestor's U.S. Passenger List,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2020, p. 56-60.

“Spotlight on Lesser Known Federal Records,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, June 2020, p. 5-12.

“Adoption Research Part II: Modern Adoption Research,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2019, p. 68-72.

“Adoption Research Part I: Historical Adoptions in Western New York,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, March 2019, p. 165-169.

“Locating Early Western New York Land Plots,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2018, p. 65-76.

“The Case of Unnamed Bootteby: Transcribed Records Can Be the Missing Link,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, March 2018, p. 168-169.

“Do You Go Beyond in FamilySearch?,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2017, p. 58-61.

“Things You Can Do with City Directories,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, September 2015, p. 53-59.

“Breaking Old World: Finding Foreign Places of Birth in American Records,” The Western New York Genealogical Society JOURNAL, December 2014, p. 99-110.

Affiliations

Buffalo & Erie Count Public Library, N.Y.

Western New York Genealogical Society

National Genealogical Society

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Polish Genealogical Society of New York State

Virtual Genealogical Association

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