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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Alameda (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Alameda. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Alameda is located in Miami-Dade County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Miami-Dade County: Broward, Collier & Monroe.

Below are the counties that are near Alameda. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Alameda:

  • Miami-Dade County     (The home county of Alameda)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alameda, with the one closest to Alameda listed first.
    • West Miami
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • West Miami is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Miami
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,749 people
    • Coral Terrace
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Coral Terrace is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Terrace
    • Westchester
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Westchester is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westchester
    • Ludlam
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Coral Way Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Coral Way Village is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coral Way Village
    • Virginia Gardens
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Virginia Gardens is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia Gardens
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,345 people
    • Coral Gables
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Fountainebleau
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Fountainebleau is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountainebleau
    • Miami Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • South Miami
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Glenvar Heights
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Glenvar Heights is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenvar Heights
    • Olympia Heights
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sweetwater
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Sweetwater is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,747 people
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alameda, with the one closest to Alameda listed first.
    • Miramar
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Carver Ranches
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Carver Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Ranches
    • Miami Gardens
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Miami Gardens is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami Gardens
    • Pembroke Pines
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Utopia
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Utopia is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
    • Lake Forest
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake Forest is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Forest
    • West Park
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • West Park is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15,038 people
    • Pembroke Park
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • West Hollywood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Hallandale Beach
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Hallandale
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Hallandale is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallandale
    • Royal Palm Ranches
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Royal Palm Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Ranches
    • Hollywood
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Alameda, see our County-by-County Page for Alameda.

Cemeteries Near Alameda ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Alameda.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Alameda - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Alameda covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Alameda, with the one closest to Alameda listed first.

  • Graceland Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Flagler Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Mt. Nebo Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Star of David Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Woodlawn Park Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Lincoln Evergreen Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Lincoln Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Lakeside Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (28 more) ...
    • City Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Miami City Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami City Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miami City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Miami.
      • The Miami City Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Biscayne Park Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71852 <3>
    • Woodlawn Park Cemetery South
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Alameda in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Alameda.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Alameda, with the one closest to Alameda listed first.

  • Miami
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Miami is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 471,525 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <1>
  • Cutler
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Alameda. See our List of 1890's Communities around Alameda.

Newspapers Published in Alameda ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 266 newspapers that have been published in the area around Alameda.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Alameda, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Alameda.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Alameda:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Alameda) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alameda, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.