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 Pinewood (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 Pinewood. 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.
Name Variations for Pinewood ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Another variation: Pine Wood.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Pinewood. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pinewood.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 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.
Pinewood 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 Pinewood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pinewood:
- Miami-Dade County (The home county of Pinewood)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pinewood, with the one closest to Pinewood listed first.
- Miami Shores
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Westview
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Westview is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westview
- El Portal
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- El Portal is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Portal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,355 people
- West Little River
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- West Little River is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Little River
- Biscayne Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Biscayne Park is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biscayne Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,018 people
- North Miami
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Gladeview
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Gladeview is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladeview
- Bunche Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Bunche Park is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunche Park
- Golden Glades
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Golden Glades is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Glades
- Opa Locka
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lemon City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lemon City is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemon City
- Brownsville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Brownsville is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
- Broward County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pinewood, with the one closest to Pinewood listed first.
- Lake Forest
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Lake Forest is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Forest
- Miami Gardens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Miami Gardens is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami Gardens
- West Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- West Park is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,038 people
- Carver Ranches
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Carver Ranches is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Ranches
- Pembroke Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Utopia
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Utopia is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
- Hallandale Beach
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Hallandale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Hallandale is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallandale
- Miramar
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- West Hollywood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hollywood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pembroke Pines
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pinewood, see our County-by-County Page for Pinewood.
Cemeteries Near Pinewood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pinewood.
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 Pinewood - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pinewood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pinewood, with the one closest to Pinewood listed first.
- Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Dade Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Miami Shores Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Lincoln Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Southern Memorial Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lincoln Evergreen Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Evergreen Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Southern Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in North Miami Beach.
- The Southern Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Caballero Rivero Southern Memorial Park
- Memorial Plan Southern Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640549 <3>
- City Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Miami City Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Miami City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Miami.
- The Miami City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Biscayne Park Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71852 <3>
- Vista Memorial Gardens
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (33 more) ...
- Mt. Nebo Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Flagler Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Graceland Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
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 Pinewood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pinewood.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pinewood, with the one closest to Pinewood listed first.
- Miami
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- 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
(18 miles [29 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 Pinewood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pinewood.
Newspapers Published in Pinewood ...
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 279 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pinewood.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pinewood, 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 Pinewood.
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 Pinewood:
- 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 '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- Pinewood) 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 Pinewood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |