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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village (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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village. 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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

• A typical abbreviation for Pops Hammock Seminole Village: Pops Hammock Seminole Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

• While the name of this community is Pops Hammock Seminole Village, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Pops Hammock Seminole Village may originally have been Pop's Hammock Seminole Village.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Pops Hammock Seminole Village might be written as Pop Hammock Seminole Village.

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 hospitals and 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.

Pops Hammock Seminole Village is located in Miami-Dade County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties 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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pops Hammock Seminole Village:

• Miami-Dade County     (The home county of Pops Hammock Seminole Village)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Pops Hammock Seminole Village, with the one closest to Pops Hammock Seminole Village listed first.
  • Frog City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frog City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frog City
    • Frog City is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Coopertown
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopertown
    • Coopertown is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coopertown <3>
  • Mart Law Seminole Village
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mart Law Seminole Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mart Law Seminole Village
    • Mart Law Seminole Village is located in Miami-Dade County
  • The Hammocks
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Hammocks have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Hammocks
    • The Hammocks is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Redland
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redland
    • Redland is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Redland <3>
  • Aladdin City
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aladdin City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aladdin City
    • Aladdin City is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Country Walk
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Country Walk have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Walk
    • Country Walk is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Lindgren
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lindgren have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindgren
    • Lindgren is located in Miami-Dade County
  • The Crossings
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Crossings have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossings
    • The Crossings is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Kendale Lakes
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kendale Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendale Lakes
    • Kendale Lakes is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Tamiami
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamiami
    • Tamiami is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Homestead
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead
    • Homestead is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 69,292 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Homestead <3>
• Monroe County
  • Trail City
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trail City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City
    • Trail City is located in Monroe County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pops Hammock Seminole Village, see our County-by-County Page for Pops Hammock Seminole Village.

Newspapers Published in Pops Hammock Seminole Village ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pops Hammock Seminole Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pops Hammock Seminole Village, 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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village.

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 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 Pops Hammock Seminole Village:

• Websites specific to Florida
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the State Archives of Florida

• Pages specific to Miami-Dade County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Monroe County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Florida
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Florida
  • Cemeteries of Miami-Dade County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Florida
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Florida
  • Cemeteries of Miami-Dade County

Cemeteries Near Pops Hammock Seminole Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pops Hammock Seminole Village.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pops Hammock Seminole Village, with the one closest to Pops Hammock Seminole Village listed first.

• Palm Memorial Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palm Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Memorial Cemetery
• Silver Green Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Silver Green Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Green Cemetery
• Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
  (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Charlotte Jane Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
• Dade South Memorial Park
  (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dade South Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dade South Memorial Park
• Pine Lawn Memorial Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Lawn Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Lawn Memorial Cemetery
• Woodlawn Park Cemetery South
  (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodlawn Park Cemetery South is a very large cemetery that is located in Miami.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Woodlawn Park Cemetery South
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #72792 <5>
• Pinelawn Memorial
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pinelawn Memorial have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pinelawn Memorial
• Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery
• Lakeside Memorial Park
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeside Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Memorial Park
• Star of David Memorial Park
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Star of David Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Star of David Memorial Park
• Miami Memorial Park
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miami Memorial Park is located in Glenvar Heights.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miami Memorial Park
• Flagler Memorial Park
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Flagler Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Flagler Memorial Park
• Mt. Nebo Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Nebo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Nebo Cemetery

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.<6>

While we didn't find Pops Hammock Seminole Village in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pops Hammock Seminole Village.

• Cutler
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cutler have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler
  • Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pops Hammock Seminole Village. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Miami-Dade County: www.miamidade.gov/

The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/