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South Carolina

The photograph, above, was taken March 2013, at Kiawah Island, SC during a vacation there. 

South Carolina, USA, the Palmetto State
8th State; Statehood, 1788; Capital City, Columbia

Some family names associated with South Carolina:

History & Overview. According to the History Channel Website:

Settled by the English in 1670, South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. constitution in 1788. Its early economy was largely agricultural, benefiting from the area’s fertile soil, and plantation farmers relied on the slave trade for cheap labor to maximize their profits. By 1730, people of African descent made up two thirds of the colony’s population. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the union in 1861, and was the site of the first shots of the Civil War–the shelling of the federally held Fort Sumter by Confederate troops on April 12, 1861. Today, South Carolina coastline near Myrtle Beach has developed into one of the premiere resort destinations on the East Coast, and has over 100 golf courses. Famous South Carolinians include musicians James Brown, Chubby Checker and Dizzy Gillespie, novelist Pat Conroy, boxer Joe Frazier, tennis champion Althea Gibson, politician Jesse Jackson and long-serving U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond.

Websites for South Carolina research:

Useful blogs:

A few of my Blog Posts on SC Research:

Books for South Carolina research:
  • Clemens, William Montgomery. North and South Carolina Marriage Records. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 2002.
  • Ervin, Sara Sullivan. South Carolinians in the Revolution. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1976.
  • Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790; South Carolina. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. In the Lancaster County Library, SC
  • Holcomb, Brent H. South Carolina Marriages; 1688 – 1799. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983.
  • Holcomb, B. H. (1982) Lancaster County, South Carolina Deeds, 1787 – 1811. Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc.
  • Houston, Martha Lou. Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970. In the Orangeburg County Library, SC
  • Jackson, Ronald Vern, and Gary Ronald Teeples. South Carolina 1810 Census. Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., 1976. In the Lancaster County Library, SC
  • Jackson, Ronald Vern, and Gary Ronald Teeples. South Carolina 1840 Census. Bountiful, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, Inc., 1977. In the Lancaster County Library, SC
  • Jarrell, Lawrence E. Early Orangeburgh South Carolina Census. High Point, North Carolina: Alligator Creek Publications, 1998.
  • Jarrell, Lawrence E. 1820 Orangeburgh South Carolina Census. High Point, North Carolina: Alligator Creek Publications, 1998.
  • Moss, Bobby Gilmmore. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub Co., Inc., 1983. In the Lancaster County Library, SC
  • Potter, Dorothy Williams. Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770 – 1823. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002.
  • Salley, Jr., A. S. The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina; From Its Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War. Orangeburg, S. C. : R. Lewis Berry, Printer, 1898.
  • Teeples, G. Ronald, Ronald Vern Jackson, and Richard Moore. South Carolina 1800 Census. Provo, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, 1973.
  • White, Virgil D. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files. Volume II: F – M. Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1991. In the Lancaster County Library, SC
  • White, Virgil D. Index to War of 1812 Pension Files. Volume I: A – F. Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Company, 1989. In the Lancaster County Library, SC

Books from the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah

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