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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 Trail Center (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 Trail Center. 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 Trail Center ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Trail Center: Trail Ctr. (or less commonly used: Trail Cen., Trail Cent. or Trail Cntr.)

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.

Trail Center is located in Monroe 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 Monroe County: Collier & Miami-Dade.

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

  • Monroe County     (The home county of Trail Center)
    • Trail City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trail City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City
      • Trail City is located in Monroe County
  • Collier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trail Center, with the one closest to Trail Center listed first.
    • Ochopee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Chokoloskee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Plantation Island
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
      • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trail Center, with the one closest to Trail Center listed first.
    • Mart Law Seminole Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mart Law Seminole Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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
    • Pops Hammock Seminole Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pops Hammock Seminole Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pops Hammock Seminole Village
      • Pops Hammock Seminole Village is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Frog City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frog City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frog City
      • Frog City is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Coopertown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • The Hammocks
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Hammocks have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Hammocks
      • The Hammocks is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Kendale Lakes
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kendale Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendale Lakes
      • Kendale Lakes is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Tamiami
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamiami
      • Tamiami is located in Miami-Dade County
    • The Crossings
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Crossings have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Crossings
      • The Crossings is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Aladdin City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aladdin City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Country Walk have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Walk
      • Country Walk is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Redland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

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 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 Trail Center:

Cemeteries Near Trail Center ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trail Center.

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).

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Trail Center. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Monroe County: www.co.monroe.fl.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024