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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 Boca West (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 Boca West. 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 doctors and 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.

Boca West is located in Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Boca West)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boca West, with the one closest to Boca West listed first.
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Boca Raton
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Whisper Walk
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Boca Del Mar
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Boca Pointe
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Sandalfoot Cove is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalfoot Cove
    • Mission Bay
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Kings Point
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • Yamato
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Yamato is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yamato
    • Villages of Oriole
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Villages of Oriole is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villages of Oriole
    • Highland Beach
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • High Point
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • High Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
    • Delray Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Delray Beach is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delray Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69,577 people
      • Former names for Delray Beach:
      • Delray
      • Linton
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Delray Beach <1>
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boca West, with the one closest to Boca West listed first.
    • Hillsboro Ranches
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Ranches
    • Hillsboro Pines
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
    • Deerfield Beach
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Crystal Lake
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • The Cove
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • The Cove is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cove
    • Pompano Estates
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Pompano Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Estates
    • Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Loch Lomond
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Loch Lomond is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Lomond
    • Tedder
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Tedder is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tedder
    • Hillsboro Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Pompano Beach Highlands
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Godfrey Road
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Parkland
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boca West, with the one closest to Boca West listed first.
    • Andover
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Andover is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andover
    • Golden Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Golden Beach is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 931 people
    • Ives Estates
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ives Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ives Estates
    • Aventura
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Lake Lucerne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Lake Lucerne is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lucerne
    • Norland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Norland is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norland
    • Ojus
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Miami Gardens
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • North Miami Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Scott Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Scott Lake is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Lake
    • Sunny Isles Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Sunny Isles Beach is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Isles Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 21,634 people
      • Sunny Isles Beach has also been known as:
      • Sunny Isles
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunny Isles Beach <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Boca West ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boca West.

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 Boca West - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<3>

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

  • Palm Beach
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Boca West ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boca West.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boca West, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boca West.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Boca West:

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>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.
<3>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 Boca West, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boca West) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.