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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 Terrytown (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 Terrytown. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Terrytown is located in Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Terrytown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Terrytown, with the one closest to Terrytown listed first.
    • Deem City ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Deem City is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deem City
    • Shawano ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Shawano is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawano
      • Shawano has also been known as:
      • Browns Farm
      • Shawano Village
    • Mission Bay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Sandalfoot Cove is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandalfoot Cove
    • Okeelanta ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Okeelanta is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okeelanta
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Whisper Walk
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Boca Pointe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Boca West
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Boca Del Mar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Belle Glade Camp
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Belle Glade Camp is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Glade Camp
    • Boca Raton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Belle Glade
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Terrytown, with the one closest to Terrytown listed first.
    • Parkland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Coral Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Ramblewood East
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Ramblewood East is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramblewood East
    • Weston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Godfrey Road
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Tamarac
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillsboro Pines
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
    • Margate
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • North Lauderdale
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Country Estates
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Country Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Estates
    • Sunrise
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Coconut Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Green Meadow
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Green Meadow is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadow
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Terrytown, with the one closest to Terrytown listed first.
    • Country Club
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
    • Palm Springs North
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Palm Springs North is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Springs North

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

Cemeteries Near Terrytown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Terrytown.

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 Terrytown - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Terrytown ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Terrytown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Terrytown, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Terrytown.

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 Terrytown:

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