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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 Parkland (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 Parkland. 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 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.

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

  • Broward County     (The home county of Parkland)
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Parkland, with the one closest to Parkland listed first.
    • Andover
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Lake Lucerne
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Lake Lucerne is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lucerne
    • Ives Estates
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Ives Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ives Estates
    • Aventura
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Carol City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Country Club
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
    • Golden Beach
      (25 miles [40.2 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
    • Miami Gardens
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Norland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Norland is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norland
    • Ojus
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Scott Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Scott Lake is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Lake
    • Bunche Park
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Bunche Park is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunche Park
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Parkland, with the one closest to Parkland listed first.
    • Mission Bay
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Boca Pointe
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Boca Del Mar
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Boca West
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Whisper Walk
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Boca Raton
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Kings Point
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • Villages of Oriole
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Villages of Oriole is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villages of Oriole
    • Yamato
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • High Point
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • 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 Parkland, see our County-by-County Page for Parkland.

Cemeteries Near Parkland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Parkland.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Parkland, with the one closest to Parkland listed first.

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

Newspapers Published in Parkland ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Parkland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Parkland, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Parkland.

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 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 Parkland:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Parkland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.