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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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place (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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place. 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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Smallpox Tommies Old Place: Smallpox Tommies Old Pl. (or less commonly used: Smallpox Tommies Old Plc.)

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 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.

Smallpox Tommies Old Place 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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Smallpox Tommies Old Place:

  • Miami-Dade County     (The home county of Smallpox Tommies Old Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Smallpox Tommies Old Place, with the one closest to Smallpox Tommies Old Place listed first.
    • Mart Law Seminole Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Pops Hammock Seminole Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Frog City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Frog City is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frog City
    • Coopertown
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Tamiami
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Tamiami is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamiami
    • The Hammocks
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • The Hammocks is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Hammocks
    • Kendale Lakes
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Kendale Lakes is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendale Lakes
    • Doral
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Doral is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doral
      • Estimated population in 2015: 56,035 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Doral <1>
    • Sweetwater
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Sweetwater is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,747 people
    • University Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Country Walk
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Country Walk is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Walk
    • The Crossings
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • The Crossings is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossings
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Smallpox Tommies Old Place, with the one closest to Smallpox Tommies Old Place listed first.
    • Country Estates
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Country Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Estates
    • Rolling Oaks
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Rolling Oaks is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolling Oaks
    • Green Meadow
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Green Meadow is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadow
    • Miramar
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Ivanhoe Estates
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ivanhoe Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanhoe Estates
    • Southwest Ranches
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Weston
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pembroke Pines
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Sunshine Ranches
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Sunshine Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Ranches
  • Monroe County
    • Trail City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Trail City is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Smallpox Tommies Old Place, see our County-by-County Page for Smallpox Tommies Old Place.

Cemeteries Near Smallpox Tommies Old Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Smallpox Tommies Old Place.

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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Smallpox Tommies Old Place, with the one closest to Smallpox Tommies Old Place listed first.

  • Our Lady of Mercy Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Lakeside Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Dade South Memorial Park
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Pine Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Woodlawn Park Cemetery South
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Pinelawn Memorial
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Miami Memorial Park
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Star of David Memorial Park
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Vista Memorial Gardens
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Smallpox Tommies Old Place ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Smallpox Tommies Old Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Smallpox Tommies Old Place, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Smallpox Tommies Old Place.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Smallpox Tommies Old Place:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Smallpox Tommies Old Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.