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 Dania (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 Dania. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Dania 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 Dania. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dania:
- Broward County (The home county of Dania)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dania, with the one closest to Dania listed first.
- Dania Beach
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Estates of Fort Lauderdale
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Ravenswood Estates
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Ravenswood Estates is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood Estates
- Oak Point
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Oak Point is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Point
- Chula Vista
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Chula Vista is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chula Vista
- Hacienda Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Hacienda Village is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hacienda Village
- Hollywood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Chambers Estates
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Chambers Estates is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers Estates
- Edgewater
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Edgewater is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater
- Fort Lauderdale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Broadview Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Broadview Park is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadview Park
- Fern Crest Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Fern Crest Village is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Crest Village
- Miami-Dade County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dania, with the one closest to Dania listed first.
- Aventura
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Golden Beach
(6 miles [9.7 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
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Ives Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ives Estates
- Ojus
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Andover
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Andover is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andover
- North Miami Beach
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Sunny Isles Beach
(8 miles [12.9 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>
- Lake Lucerne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Lucerne is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lucerne
- Norland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Norland is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norland
- Carol City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Miami Gardens
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Scott Lake
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Scott Lake is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Lake
- Palm Beach County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dania, with the one closest to Dania listed first.
- Boca Pointe
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
- Sandalfoot Cove
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Sandalfoot Cove is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalfoot Cove
- Boca Del Mar
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
- Boca Raton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Boca West
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
- Hamptons at Boca Raton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Mission Bay
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
- Whisper Walk
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
- Highland Beach
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Yamato
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Yamato is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yamato
- Kings Point
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
- Delray Beach
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- 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>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dania, see our County-by-County Page for Dania.
Cemeteries Near Dania ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dania.
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 Dania - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dania covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dania, with the one closest to Dania listed first.
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Sharon Gardens Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Lauderdale Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Hollywood Memorial Gardens
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hollywood Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hollywood Memorial Gardens North
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lauderdale Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Washington Memorial Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Westlawn Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sunset Memorial Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Southern Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in North Miami Beach.
- The Southern Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Caballero Rivero Southern Memorial Park
- Memorial Plan Southern Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640549 <2>
- Continue List (31 more) ...
- Southern Memorial Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Dade Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Miami Shores Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
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 Dania in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dania.
- Miami
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- 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>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dania. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dania.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Dania ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dania.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Dania. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Dania and those printed in the larger area surrounding Dania.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<4> of Dania.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Dania:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Broward County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Miami-Dade County
- Palm Beach County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
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 Dania, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dania) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |