South Carolina
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Region: South
Border States: North Carolina, Georgia
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Statewide Resources
- South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control- Information on ordering vital records.
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History- Includes Confederate Pension Applications 1919 - 1938 and Will Transcripts 1782 - 1855.
- South Carolina County Formation Maps- From the South Carolina Archives and History Center.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for South Carolina- From the University of South Carolina
- South Carolina Digital Library- "The South Carolina Digital Library is a collaborative effort among South Carolina schools, libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. The mission is to create and maintain a digital library to provide access to South Carolina's historical and cultural resources."
- Southern Historical Press, Inc.- Provides a number of important South Carolina research titles.
- Lowcountry Africana-"Records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida, an area that scholars and preservationists have identified as a distinct culture area, home to the rich Gullah/Geechee culture."
- 1870 Mortality Schedule Index-"Includes: Chester, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union and York Counties"
Abbeville County
Beaufort County
- Newspaper Obituary Index- from Beaufort County Library.
- St. Helena Cemetery Transcriptions-partial.
Barnwell County
Charleston County
Cemeteries
- Magnolia Cemetery Records- from BYU
- Magnolia Cemetery Records- Parial listing, from SCGenWEB
- St. Johns Chapel Graveyard- From findagrave.
Census Records
Directories
- 1816-1829 Charleston City Directories- broken run. From Google Books.
- 1851 Charleston Directory
- 1852 Charleston Directory
- Sholes' 1882 Charleston Directory
- 1888 Charleston City Directory
Misc. Data
- Charleston County Online- With public records databases for marriage and estates.
- St. Matthew's Archives Online-Selected items from an archives researcher.
- South Carolina Tri-county Genealogy- Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.
- South Carolina Confederate Service Records
Offline Repositories
Vital Records
- South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1943- From familysearch.org
- South Carolina Deaths, 1944-1955- From familysearch.org
Chesterfield County
- Chesterfield/Anson County Research- Anson County, North Carolina was a feeder county for settlement of Chesterfield.
Colleton County
Dillon County
Georgetown County
- Georgetown County Probate Court- Information on ordering estate papers and wills from 1865-present, Marriage licenses from 1911.
Kershaw County
- Camden Archives and Museum- Includes wills, obits, bible records and more.
Richland County
- Richland County Online- Searchable marriage license database from June, 1911-Present.
