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 Bay Pines (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 Bay Pines. 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 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.
Bay Pines is located in Beaufort County.
To see how the shape of South Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Beaufort County: Colleton, Hampton & Jasper.
Below are the counties that are near Bay Pines. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bay Pines:
- Beaufort County (The home county of Bay Pines)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Point Comfort
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Point Comfort is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Comfort
- Hilton Head Island
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Harbour Town
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Harbour Town is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbour Town
- Bluffton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Daufuskie Island
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pritchardville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Pritchardville is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pritchardville
- Okatie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Battery Marina Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Shell Point
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Shell Point is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point
- Port Royal
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Burton
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Sangster Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Sangster Village is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sangster Village
- Jasper County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Ridgeland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Tillman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Chatham County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Fort Screven
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Fort Screven is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Screven
- Tybee Island
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Golden Isles
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Wilmington Island
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Whitemarsh Island
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Whitemarsh Island is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitemarsh Island
- Isle of Armstrong
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Isle of Armstrong is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle of Armstrong
- Population from the 2010 Census: 2,402 people
- Thunderbolt
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Robert M Hitch Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Robert M Hitch Village is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robert M Hitch Village
- Savannah
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Bona Bella
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bona Bella is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bona Bella
- Abercorn Heights
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Abercorn Heights is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abercorn Heights
- Carver Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Carver Village is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Village
- Effingham County (GA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Exley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Exley is located in Effingham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exley
- Population from the 2010 Census: 2,894 people
- Rincon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Rincon is located in Effingham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rincon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,655 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rincon <1>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bay Pines, see our County-by-County Page for Bay Pines.
Cemeteries Near Bay Pines ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bay Pines.
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 Bay Pines - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bay Pines covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Opossum Point Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Lawton Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Six Oaks Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Braddocks Point Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Stoney Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jenkins Island Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Haig Point Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Baynard Tomb
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Government Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Talbor Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Drayton Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (115 more) ...
- Moreland Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Mary Field Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Elliot Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 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.<4>
While we didn't find Bay Pines in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bay Pines.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bay Pines, with the one closest to Bay Pines listed first.
- Hilton Head Island
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Bluffton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Tybee Island
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Pritchardville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Pritchardville is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pritchardville
- Okatie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Port Royal
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Savannah
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Frogmore
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Frogmore is located in Beaufort County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frogmore
- Beaufort
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Hardeeville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Isle of Hope
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Isle of Hope is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle of Hope
- Wheat Hill
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Wheat Hill is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheat Hill
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Central Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Central Junction is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Junction
- Ridgeland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Monteith
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Monteith is located in Chatham County (GA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monteith
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bay Pines. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bay Pines.
Newspapers Published in Bay Pines ...
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 201 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bay Pines.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bay Pines, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bay Pines.
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 Bay Pines:
- Websites specific to South Carolina
- Pages specific to Beaufort County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Jasper County
- Chatham County
- Effingham County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for South Carolina
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bay Pines) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Bay Pines, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |