Charleston County, South Carolina Genealogy

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Parent County
1769--Charleston County was created in 1769 from Colleton and Berkeley (old) Counties. County seat:  Charleston 

Neighboring Counties

 * Berkeley
 * Colleton
 * Dorchester
 * Georgetown

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Charleston

Land
Plats For State Land Grants 1784-1868

This series consists of recorded copies of plats for state land grants for the Charleston and the Columbia Series with their certificates of admeasurement or certification. All personal names and geographic features on these plats are included in the repository's On-line Index to Plats for State Land Grants

The South Carolina Constitution of 1790 required the surveyor general to maintain offices in both the new capital at Columbia and in Charleston. The surveyor general began to use separate volumes for recording plats in his Columbia office in 1796. Before that, all plats were recorded in the set of volumes begun in Charleston in 1784. After 1796, most plats for land grants in the Upper Division of the state were recorded and filed in Columbia. The surveyor general chose to make the Columbia volumes a continuation of the state plat volumes begun in Charleston and gave the initial Columbia volume the number thirty-six to correspond with the number of the volume that had then been reached in the Charleston series. As a result, there are volumes numbered thirty-six through forty-three from each office, but the records in them are not duplicative.

Also included are the Plan Books containing Plats and Plans.

Societies and Libraries

 * South Carolina Historical Society

The Society's library is located at 100 Meeting Street in historic downtown Charleston.

Members may use the library free of charge. There is a $5.00 daily fee for non-members. The Society's holdings pertain to the state of South Carolina, with large amounts of materials on families of the Midlands and the Lowcountry. If an individual did not spend a significant amount of time in South Carolina, the Society may not have information pertaining to him or her. The Society does not have the censuses of South Carolina in its holdings and only abstracts from newspapers. Please note the average length of a search is approximately six to eight weeks

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog