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 Delray Shores (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 Delray Shores. 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 Delray Shores ...
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 Delray Shores: Delray Shrs.
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 northwest 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 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 west 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.
Delray Shores 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 Delray Shores. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Delray Shores:
- Palm Beach County (The home county of Delray Shores)
- The following are listed by their distance from Delray Shores, with the one closest to Delray Shores listed first.
- Dunes Road
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Dunes Road is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunes Road
- Delray Beach
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- 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>
- High Point
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- High Point is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
- Golf
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Gulf Stream
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Gulf Stream is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulf Stream
- Population from the 2020 Census: 988 people
- Boynton Beach
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Briny Breezes
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Briny Breezes is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briny Breezes
- Population from the 2020 Census: 577 people
- Kings Point
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
- Villages of Oriole
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Villages of Oriole is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villages of Oriole
- Country Club Trail
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Country Club Trail is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club Trail
- Ocean Ridge
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Sun Valley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Sun Valley is located in Palm Beach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
- Broward County
- The following are listed by their distance from Delray Shores, with the one closest to Delray Shores listed first.
- Deerfield Beach
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- The Cove
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- The Cove is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cove
- Hillsboro Pines
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
- Hillsboro Ranches
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hillsboro Ranches is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Ranches
- Hillsboro Beach
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Pompano Estates
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Pompano Estates is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Estates
- Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Crystal Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
- Lighthouse Point
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Loch Lomond
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Loch Lomond is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Lomond
- Pompano Beach Highlands
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Tedder
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Tedder is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tedder
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Delray Shores, see our County-by-County Page for Delray Shores.
Cemeteries Near Delray Shores ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Delray Shores.
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 Delray Shores - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Delray Shores covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Delray Shores, with the one closest to Delray Shores listed first.
- Pine Ridge Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Gardens of Boca Raton Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Palm Beach Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Lincoln Memorial Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Boca Raton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Eternal Light Memorial Gardens
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- South Florida National Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Worth Memory Gardens
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Westview Community Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park of Broward County
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest Memorial Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Pompano Beach Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Beach Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pompano Beach Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pompano Beach.
- The Pompano Beach Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pompano Beach South Lawn Cemetery
- South Lawn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1993291 <2>
- Star of David Memorial Gardens
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Our Lady of Peace Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Delray Shores in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Delray Shores.
- Palm Beach
(16 miles [25.7 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 Delray Shores. See our List of 1890's Communities around Delray Shores.
Newspapers Published in Delray Shores ...
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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Delray Shores.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Delray Shores, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Delray Shores.
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 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 Delray Shores:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Palm Beach County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 Delray Shores, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Delray Shores) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |