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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 Coconut Creek (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 Coconut Creek. 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.

Name Variations for Coconut Creek ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Coconut Creek: Coconut Crk. (or less commonly used: Coconut Ck. or Coconut Cr.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and doctors 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.

Coconut Creek is located in Broward 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 Broward County: Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade & Palm Beach.

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

  • Broward County     (The home county of Coconut Creek)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coconut Creek, with the one closest to Coconut Creek listed first.
    • Margate
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Carver Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Carver Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Village
    • Kendall Green
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Kendall Green is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall Green
    • Leisureville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Leisureville is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leisureville
    • Loch Lomond
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Loch Lomond is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Lomond
    • Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Crystal Lake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • Godfrey Road
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Palm Aire
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Palm Aire is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Aire
    • North Lauderdale
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ramblewood East
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Ramblewood East is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramblewood East
    • Coral Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Miami-Dade County
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coconut Creek, with the one closest to Coconut Creek listed first.
    • Boca Pointe
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Boca Del Mar
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Mission Bay
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Boca West
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Boca Raton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Whisper Walk
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Yamato
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Highland Beach
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Kings Point
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • High Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • High Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point

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

Cemeteries Near Coconut Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coconut Creek.

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 Coconut Creek - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Coconut Creek ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coconut Creek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coconut Creek, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Coconut Creek.

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 helpful 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 Coconut Creek:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Coconut Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.