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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 Palm and Pine Park (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 Palm and Pine Park. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Palm and Pine Park is located in Lee 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 Lee County: Charlotte, Collier, Glades & Hendry.

Below are the counties that are near Palm and Pine Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Palm and Pine Park:

  • Lee County     (The home county of Palm and Pine Park)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Palm and Pine Park, with the one closest to Palm and Pine Park listed first.
    • East Dunbar
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • East Dunbar is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Dunbar
    • Fort Myers
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • North Fort Myers
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Tice
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Samville ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Samville is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Samville
    • Suncoast Estates
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Suncoast Estates is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suncoast Estates
    • Morse Shores
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Morse Shores is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morse Shores
    • Palmona Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Palmona Park is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmona Park
    • Lochmoor Waterway Estates
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Slater
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Slater is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slater
    • Page Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Page Park is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page Park
    • Pine Manor
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Pine Manor is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Manor
    • Whiskey Creek
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Whiskey Creek is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskey Creek
  • Charlotte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Palm and Pine Park, with the one closest to Palm and Pine Park listed first.
    • Charlotte Park
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Charlotte Park is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte Park
    • Cleveland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
    • Fishermens Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Fishermens Village is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishermens Village
    • Punta Gorda
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Solana
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Solana is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solana
    • Harbour Heights
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Harbour Heights is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbour Heights
    • Charlotte Harbor
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Harbor View
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Harbor View is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor View
    • Port Charlotte
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Placida
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cape Haze
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • El Jobean
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Murdock
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Collier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Palm and Pine Park, with the one closest to Palm and Pine Park listed first.
    • Barefoot Beach
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Barefoot Beach is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barefoot Beach
    • Naples Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Vanderbilt Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Pelican Bay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Pine Ridge
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Pine Ridge is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
    • Orangetree
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Orangetree is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangetree
    • North Naples
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • North Naples is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Naples
    • Vineyards
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Vineyards is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineyards
  • DeSoto County
  • Hendry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Palm and Pine Park, with the one closest to Palm and Pine Park listed first.
    • Felda
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • La Belle
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Port La Belle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Port La Belle is located in Hendry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port La Belle
    • Sears ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Sears is located in Hendry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Palm and Pine Park, see our County-by-County Page for Palm and Pine Park.

Cemeteries Near Palm and Pine Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Palm and Pine Park.

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 Palm and Pine Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Palm and Pine Park, with the one closest to Palm and Pine Park listed first.

  • Buckingham
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Buckingham is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
  • Punta Rassa
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Punta Rassa is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punta Rassa
  • Alva
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Saint James City
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Sanibel
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Cleveland
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
  • Punta Gorda
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Harbor View
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Harbor View is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor View
  • Charlotte Harbor
    (24 miles [38.6 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 Palm and Pine Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Palm and Pine Park.

Newspapers Published in Palm and Pine Park ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Palm and Pine Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Palm and Pine Park, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Palm and Pine Park.

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 Palm and Pine Park:

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 Palm and Pine Park, 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- Palm and Pine Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.