Nearest Communities to Merrimac Shores,
Listed -By-
The purpose of this page is to identify those communities that are closest to Merrimac Shores, on a -by- basis. To explain further, let's use the example from the Genealogy Helper Page for Merrimac Shores:
We have great-grandparents who lived in a small community in the northeast corner of their home . During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the to the north.
When doing our research, we make it a practice to expand our search by looking in neighboring in addition to the in which they lived: their home contained property and probate records; the to the east contained birth and death records; the to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't checked the neighboring , we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
Please note that when we give a distance, it's a 'straight-line' distance starting from Merrimac Shores.<1>
If you're researching your genealogy, we hope that the following information helps.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Merrimac Shores) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Merrimac Shores. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0079, Longitude: -76.3499 In this case, the coordinates for Merrimac Shores have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |