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Records Of The Family History Library
Family History Library Catalog
Archives And Libraries
Bible Records
Biography
Cemeteries
Census
Church Records
Court Records
Directories
Emigration And Immigration
Gazetteers
Genealogy
History
Land And Property
Maps
Military Records
Native Races
Naturalization And Citizenship
Newspapers
Periodicals
Probate Records
Public Records
Taxation
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions
PERIODICALS The major genealogical periodicals and magazines helpful for South Carolina research are:
Carolina Genealogist. 1969-1984. Published by Mary Bondurant Warren, Danielsville, GA 30633. (FHL book 975 B2cg.)
Carolina Herald and Newsletter. 1974-. Published by the South Carolina Genealogical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 492, Columbia, S.C. 29202. (FHL book 975.7 B2c.)
Names in South Carolina. 1954-. Published by the Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. (FHL book 975.7 B5d.) Has information on persons and places whose history is intertwined with specific localities.
South Carolina Genealogical Register. 1963-1968. Published by Elizabeth Wood Thomas, ed., Pass Christian, MS 39571. (FHL book 975.7 B2g; film vols. 908182 item 2 vols. 2 and 496854 item 6 vols. 3-4.)
South Carolina Historical Magazine (formerly: South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine). 1900-. Published by the South Carolina Historical Society, Fireproof Building, 100 Meeting St., Charleston, SC 29401-2291, Telephone: 803-723-3225, Fax 803-723-8584. (FHL book 975.7 B2s; film 1697883 item 13 vol. 6.) This has cumulative indexes to 1992.
South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, 1973-. Published by Brent Holcomb, P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221 (FHL book 975.7 B2sc.)
Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. 1888-. Published by the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, 138 Logan St., Charleston, SC 29401. (FHL book 975.7 C4h; vols. 1, 5, 18-20, and 22 on films beginning with film 1321493.)
Probate records The Family History Library has microfilms of probate records for many counties. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has similar holdings of microfilms or typescripts of the existing records. These include wills The following are examples of publications that can help you locate colonial records:
Holcomb, Brent H. Probate Records of South Carolina. 3 vols. Easley, S. C.: Southern Historical Press, 1977-. (FHL book 975.7 P2p.) This contains records from 1746 to 1821 and is fully indexed.
Houston, Martha Lou, comp. Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina. Originally published in 1939. Reprinted in Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1964. (FHL book 975.7 P22h 1964; film 908509 item 3; fiche 6046877.) This is an index to most pre-1860 county wills, but does not include Charleston County wills.
Moore, Carolina T., and Agatha Aimar Simmons. Abstracts of the Wills of the State of South Carolina. 3 vols. Columbia, S.C.: R. L. Bryan Co., 1960-69. (FHL book 975.7 P2m; film 1035622 items 1-3; fiche 6051514.) These volumes cover the years 1670 to 1784.
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PROBATE RECORDS
of South Carolina were kept by the secretary of the province prior to 1732, and were later kept by the courts of ordinary and probate courts of each county. Most of the original wills for the colonial period have not survived. Pre-Civil War probate files for Beaufort, Chesterfield, Colleton, Georgetown, Lancaster, and Orangeburg districts were destroyed.
, inventories, bills of sale, power of attorneys, bonds, notes, administrations, judgments, and sales records.
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