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 Pennsuco (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 Pennsuco. 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 and hospitals 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.
Pennsuco is located in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County: Broward, Collier & Monroe.
Below are the counties that are near Pennsuco. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pennsuco:
- Miami-Dade County (The home county of Pennsuco)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pennsuco, with the one closest to Pennsuco listed first.
- Palm Springs North
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Palm Springs North is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Springs North
- Hialeah Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Miami Lakes
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Medley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hialeah
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Country Club
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
- Doral
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Opa Locka
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Miami Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Virginia Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Virginia Gardens is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia Gardens
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,345 people
- Bunche Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Bunche Park is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunche Park
- Carol City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Fountainebleau
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Fountainebleau is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountainebleau
- Broward County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pennsuco, with the one closest to Pennsuco listed first.
- Miramar
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pembroke Pines
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Country Estates
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Country Estates is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Estates
- Green Meadow
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Green Meadow is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadow
- Rolling Oaks
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Rolling Oaks is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Oaks
- Sunshine Ranches
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Sunshine Ranches is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Ranches
- Ivanhoe Estates
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Ivanhoe Estates is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe Estates
- Southwest Ranches
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Royal Palm Ranches
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Royal Palm Ranches is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Ranches
- Cooper City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Miami Gardens
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Miami Gardens is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami Gardens
- Sunshine Acres
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sunshine Acres is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Acres
- Utopia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Utopia is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pennsuco, see our County-by-County Page for Pennsuco.
Cemeteries Near Pennsuco ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pennsuco.
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 Pennsuco - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pennsuco covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pennsuco, with the one closest to Pennsuco listed first.
- Vista Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lakeside Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Evergreen Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lincoln Evergreen Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lincoln Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Miami Shores Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Dade Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Flagler Memorial Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Nebo Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (33 more) ...
- Graceland Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Star of David Memorial Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Woodlawn Park Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Pennsuco in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pennsuco.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pennsuco, with the one closest to Pennsuco listed first.
- Miami
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Miami is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
- Population from the 2020 Census: 471,525 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <1>
- Cutler
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pennsuco. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pennsuco.
Newspapers Published in Pennsuco ...
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 238 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pennsuco.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pennsuco, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pennsuco.
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 helpful 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 Pennsuco:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Miami-Dade 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Pennsuco) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Pennsuco, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |