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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 Bayberry Dunes (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 Bayberry Dunes. 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 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.

Bayberry Dunes is located in Suffolk County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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

  • Suffolk County     (The home county of Bayberry Dunes)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayberry Dunes, with the one closest to Bayberry Dunes listed first.
    • Water Island
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Water Island is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Island
    • Bayport
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Blue Point
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • East Patchogue
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • East Patchogue is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Patchogue
    • Patchogue
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Bellport
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sayville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • North Bellport
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • North Bellport is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bellport
    • North Patchogue
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • North Patchogue is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Patchogue
    • West Sayville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • West Sayville is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Sayville
    • Brookhaven
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Bohemia
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Nassau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bayberry Dunes, with the one closest to Bayberry Dunes listed first.
    • East Massapequa
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • East Massapequa is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Massapequa
    • South Farmingdale
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • South Farmingdale is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Farmingdale
    • Biltmore Shores
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Biltmore Shores is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biltmore Shores
    • Farmingdale
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Massapequa Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • North Massapequa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • North Massapequa is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Massapequa
    • Old Bethpage
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Harbor Green
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Harbor Green is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Green
    • Massapequa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Plainedge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Plainedge is located in Nassau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainedge
    • Plainview
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Bethpage
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Bayberry Dunes ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bayberry Dunes.

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 Bayberry Dunes - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Blue Point Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Cedar Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • St. de Sales Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Rice Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Old Bellport Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Union Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Ann's Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Patchogue Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • St. George Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Corwin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (145 more) ...
    • Oaklawn Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • St. Lawrence Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • David Hawkins Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>

While we didn't find Bayberry Dunes in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bayberry Dunes.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Bayberry Dunes, with the one closest to Bayberry Dunes listed first.

  • Blue Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Bayport
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Patchogue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Bellport
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • East Patchogue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • East Patchogue is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Patchogue
  • Sayville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • West Sayville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • West Sayville is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Sayville
  • Brookhaven
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Fire Island
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Medford
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Bohemia
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Holtsville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Holbrook
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • South Haven
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • South Haven is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Haven
    • Great River
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Bayberry Dunes ...

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 168 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bayberry Dunes.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bayberry Dunes, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bayberry Dunes.

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 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 Bayberry Dunes:

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>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bayberry Dunes, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bayberry Dunes) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.