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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 Hamptons at Boca Raton (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 Hamptons at Boca Raton. 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 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.

Hamptons at Boca Raton 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 Hamptons at Boca Raton. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hamptons at Boca Raton:

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Hamptons at Boca Raton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamptons at Boca Raton, with the one closest to Hamptons at Boca Raton listed first.
    • Whisper Walk
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Boca West
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Mission Bay
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Sandalfoot Cove is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalfoot Cove
    • Boca Del Mar
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • 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 southeast)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Boca Raton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • 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
    • Kings Point
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • Yamato
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Yamato is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yamato
    • High Point
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • High Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
    • Highland Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamptons at Boca Raton, with the one closest to Hamptons at Boca Raton listed first.
    • Hillsboro Pines
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
    • 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
    • Godfrey Road
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Deerfield Beach
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Parkland
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • The Cove
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • The Cove is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cove
    • Crystal Lake
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • Pompano Estates
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Pompano Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Estates
    • Tedder
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Tedder is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tedder
    • Ramblewood East
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Ramblewood East is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramblewood East
    • Coconut Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamptons at Boca Raton, with the one closest to Hamptons at Boca Raton 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
    • Aventura
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Golden Beach
      (29 miles [46.7 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
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Ives Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ives Estates
    • 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
    • Carol City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Miami Gardens
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Ojus
      (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 Hamptons at Boca Raton, see our County-by-County Page for Hamptons at Boca Raton.

Cemeteries Near Hamptons at Boca Raton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hamptons at Boca Raton.

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 Hamptons at Boca Raton - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hamptons at Boca Raton, with the one closest to Hamptons at Boca Raton 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 Hamptons at Boca Raton in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hamptons at Boca Raton.

  • Palm Beach
    (24 miles [38.6 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 Hamptons at Boca Raton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hamptons at Boca Raton.

Newspapers Published in Hamptons at Boca Raton ...

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 Hamptons at Boca Raton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hamptons at Boca Raton, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hamptons at Boca Raton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Hamptons at Boca Raton:

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 Hamptons at Boca Raton, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Hamptons at Boca Raton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.