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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 Lauderhill (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 Lauderhill. 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 doctors 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.

Lauderhill 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 Lauderhill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lauderhill:

  • Broward County     (The home county of Lauderhill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lauderhill, with the one closest to Lauderhill listed first.
    • West Ken - Lark
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • West Ken - Lark is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Ken - Lark
    • Lauderdale Lakes
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Flamingo Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Flamingo Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flamingo Village
    • Franklin Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Franklin Park is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin Park
    • Golden Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Golden Heights is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Heights
    • Rock Island Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Rock Island Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island Village
    • Rock Island
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Rock Island is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island
    • Roosevelt Gardens
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Roosevelt Gardens is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roosevelt Gardens
    • Sunrise
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Broward Estates
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Broward Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broward Estates
    • Saint George
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Saint George is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint George
    • Washington Park
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Washington Park is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Park
    • Plantation
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami-Dade County
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lauderhill, with the one closest to Lauderhill listed first.
    • Boca Pointe
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Boca Del Mar
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Mission Bay
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Boca Raton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Boca West
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Whisper Walk
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Highland Beach
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Yamato
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Kings Point
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • Villages of Oriole
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Villages of Oriole is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villages of Oriole
    • High Point
      (22 miles [35.4 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 Lauderhill, see our County-by-County Page for Lauderhill.

Cemeteries Near Lauderhill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lauderhill.

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 Lauderhill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Lauderhill ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lauderhill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lauderhill, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lauderhill.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Lauderhill:

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 Lauderhill, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lauderhill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.