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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 Sarasota Colony (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 Sarasota Colony. 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.

Sarasota Colony is located in Glades 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 Glades County: Charlotte, DeSoto, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Martin, Okeechobee & Palm Beach.

Below are the counties that are near Sarasota Colony. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sarasota Colony:

  • Glades County     (The home county of Sarasota Colony)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sarasota Colony, with the one closest to Sarasota Colony listed first.
    • Lakeport
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Moore Haven
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Buckhead Ridge
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
    • Palmdale
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Hall City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Hall City is located in Glades County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall City
  • Hendry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sarasota Colony, with the one closest to Sarasota Colony listed first.
    • Clewiston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Harlem
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Harlem is located in Hendry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
    • Port La Belle
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Port La Belle is located in Hendry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port La Belle
    • La Belle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Highlands County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sarasota Colony, with the one closest to Sarasota Colony listed first.
    • Venus
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Archbold
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Archbold is located in Highlands County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archbold
    • Lake Placid
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Placid Lakes
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
    • Sylvan Shores
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sylvan Shores is located in Highlands County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Shores
  • Martin County
  • Okeechobee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sarasota Colony, with the one closest to Sarasota Colony listed first.
    • Okeechobee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Taylor Creek
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
    • Cypress Quarters
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sarasota Colony, with the one closest to Sarasota Colony listed first.
    • Ritta ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Ritta is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritta
      • Ritta has also been known as:
      • Ritta Island
    • Kraemer ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Kraemer is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kraemer
    • Lake Harbor
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Canal Point
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Canal Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canal Point
      • Former names for Canal Point:
      • Canalpoint
      • Long Beach
      • Nemaha
      • New Town
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canal Point <1>
    • Sand Cut ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Sand Cut is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Cut
    • Pahokee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Bean City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Bean City is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bean City
    • Fremd Village - Padgett Island
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Fremd Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Fremd Village is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremd Village
    • Torry Island ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Torry Island is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torry Island
    • Bryant ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Chosen ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Chosen is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chosen

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sarasota Colony, see our County-by-County Page for Sarasota Colony.

Cemeteries Near Sarasota Colony ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sarasota Colony.

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 Sarasota Colony - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ridgelawn Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Ortona Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Basinger Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Port Mayaca Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Sarasota Colony. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sarasota Colony.

Newspapers Published in Sarasota Colony ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sarasota Colony.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sarasota Colony, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sarasota Colony.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Sarasota Colony:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sarasota Colony) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.