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 Collins Park Estates (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 Collins Park Estates. 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 Collins Park Estates ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Collins Park Estates: Collins Park Ests.
- While the name of this community is Collins Park Estates, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Collins Park Estates may originally have been Collin's Park Estates.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Collins Park Estates might be written as Collin Park Estates.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
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 west contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.
Collins Park Estates is located in Saint Lucie 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 Saint Lucie County: Indian River, Martin & Okeechobee.
Below are the counties that are near Collins Park Estates. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Collins Park Estates:
- Saint Lucie County (The home county of Collins Park Estates)
- The following are listed by their distance from Collins Park Estates, with the one closest to Collins Park Estates listed first.
- Indian River Estates
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Indian River Estates is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River Estates
- White City
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- White City is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Fort Pierce
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Port Saint Lucie
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Saint Lucie Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
- Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
- Saint Lucie
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
- Lakewood Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
- Hutchinson Island South
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Indian River County
- The following are listed by their distance from Collins Park Estates, with the one closest to Collins Park Estates listed first.
- Florida Ridge
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Florida Ridge is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Ridge
- South Beach
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- South Beach is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Beach
- Vero Beach
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Gifford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Gifford is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gifford
- Indian River Shores
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Winter Beach
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Wabasso
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Wabasso Beach
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Wabasso Beach is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabasso Beach
- Orchid
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Orchid is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchid
- Population from the 2020 Census: 455 people
- North Beach
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- North Beach is located in Indian River County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Beach
- Martin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Collins Park Estates, with the one closest to Collins Park Estates listed first.
- Jensen Beach
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Ocean Breeze
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ocean Breeze is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Breeze
- Population from the 2020 Census: 413 people
- Former name for Ocean Breeze:
- Ocean Breeze Park
- North River Shores
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- North River Shores is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North River Shores
- Rio
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rio is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
- Stuart
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Sewall's Point
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Palm City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Port Salerno
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hobe Sound
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Indiantown
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jupiter Island
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jupiter Island is located in Martin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Island
- Population from the 2020 Census: 941 people
- Okeechobee County
- Taylor Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
- Palm Beach County
- Rood ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Rood is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rood
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Collins Park Estates, see our County-by-County Page for Collins Park Estates.
Cemeteries Near Collins Park Estates ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Collins Park Estates.
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 Collins Park Estates - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Collins Park Estates covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Collins Park Estates, with the one closest to Collins Park Estates listed first.
- White City Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ft. Pierce Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Garden of Heavenly Rest
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- All Saints Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Old Sebastian Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Collins Park Estates. See our List of 1890's Communities around Collins Park Estates.
Newspapers Published in Collins Park Estates ...
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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Collins Park Estates.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Collins Park Estates, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Collins Park Estates.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Collins Park Estates:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Saint Lucie County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Indian River County
- Martin County
- Okeechobee County
- Palm Beach County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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- Collins Park Estates) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |