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 Walter Hamilton 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 Walter Hamilton 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 Walter Hamilton 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.

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 Walter Hamilton Place: Walter Hamilton Pl. (or less commonly used: Walter Hamilton 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Walter Hamilton Place 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 Walter Hamilton Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Walter Hamilton Place:

• Monroe County     (The home county of Walter Hamilton Place)
  • Trail City
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • 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 Walter Hamilton Place, with the one closest to Walter Hamilton Place listed first.
  • Chokoloskee
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chokoloskee
    • Chokoloskee is located in Collier County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chokoloskee <2>
  • Plantation Island
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
    • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
  • Everglades City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everglades City
    • Everglades City is located in Collier County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 432 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Everglades City <2>
  • Ochopee
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochopee
    • Ochopee is located in Collier County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ochopee <2>
  • Copeland
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copeland
    • Copeland is located in Collier County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Copeland <2>
• Miami-Dade County
  • Pops Hammock Seminole Village
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • 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

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

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 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 Walter Hamilton Place:

• 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 Monroe County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Collier County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Miami-Dade 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 Monroe County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Florida
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Florida

Cemeteries Near Walter Hamilton Place ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Walter Hamilton Place.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

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

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Walter Hamilton Place. 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/