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 Fire Island Pines Ferry (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 Fire Island Pines Ferry. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
Fire Island Pines Ferry 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 Fire Island Pines Ferry. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry:
- Suffolk County (The home county of Fire Island Pines Ferry)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fire Island Pines Ferry, with the one closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry listed first.
- Bayport
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Sayville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- West Sayville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- West Sayville is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Sayville
- Water Island
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Water Island is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Island
- Blue Point
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Oakdale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Patchogue
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Bohemia
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Fire Island
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Ocean Beach
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Great River
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- East Islip
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- East Islip is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Islip
- Nassau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fire Island Pines Ferry, with the one closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry listed first.
- East Massapequa
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- East Massapequa is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Massapequa
- South Farmingdale
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- South Farmingdale is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Farmingdale
- Farmingdale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Massapequa Park
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- North Massapequa
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- North Massapequa is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Massapequa
- Old Bethpage
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bethpage
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Biltmore Shores
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Biltmore Shores is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biltmore Shores
- Harbor Green
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Harbor Green is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor Green
- Massapequa
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Plainedge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Plainedge is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainedge
- Plainview
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry, see our County-by-County Page for Fire Island Pines Ferry.
Cemeteries Near Fire Island Pines Ferry ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fire Island Pines Ferry.
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 Fire Island Pines Ferry - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fire Island Pines Ferry covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fire Island Pines Ferry, with the one closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry listed first.
- Union Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- St. Ann's Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Blue Point Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Lawrence Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Bohemia Union Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- St. John Nepomucene RC Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Cedar Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Rice Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. de Sales Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Patchogue Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Old Bellport Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (159 more) ...
- Old Central Islip Psychiatric Center Patient Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Waverly Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Lake Ronkonkoma Cemetery II
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
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 Fire Island Pines Ferry in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fire Island Pines Ferry.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fire Island Pines Ferry, with the one closest to Fire Island Pines Ferry listed first.
- Sayville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Bayport
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- West Sayville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- West Sayville is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Sayville
- Blue Point
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Fire Island
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Bohemia
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Patchogue
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Great River
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- East Patchogue
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- East Patchogue is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Patchogue
- Bellport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Holbrook
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Islip
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Ronkonkoma
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Medford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Holtsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fire Island Pines Ferry. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fire Island Pines Ferry.
Newspapers Published in Fire Island Pines Ferry ...
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 192 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fire Island Pines Ferry.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fire Island Pines Ferry, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fire Island Pines Ferry.
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 Fire Island Pines Ferry:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Suffolk County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New York
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 Fire Island Pines Ferry, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Fire Island Pines Ferry) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |