South Carolina Genealogical Society

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:webmaster@scgen.org webmaster@scgen.org] Internet site webmaster.

Address:


 * Tompkins Memorial Library
 * 104 Courthouse Square
 * Edgefield, SC 29824-1335

Telephone: at Tompkins Memorial Library 803-637-4010  Fax:  803-637-2116

Hours and holidays: Monday - Friday 9 am - 4 pm; Saturday- 9 am - 1 pm

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Internet sites and databases:


 * South Carolina Genealogical Society Internet site membership, chapters, news, projects, archives, links, research help, county histories, books to purchase.
 * South Carolina Genealogical Society Archives Book List by title, publisher, category, author, catalog number, copyright year, and cover type.

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Collection Description
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Alternate Repositories
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Similar Collections


 * South Carolina Department of Archives and History federal and state census records, county probate records, county land records, family histories, cemeteries, tax records, newspapers, county equity court records, and state death certificates. Also colonial British records.
 * South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston, SC, diaries and papers, plantation, business, and church records, maps, plats, genealogies, 30,000 photos, 50,000 books, pamphlets, and serials.

Neighboring Collections


 * National Archives Southeast Region (Atlanta) (i.e. Morrow), federal censuses, Ancestry.com, military, pensions, bounty-land, photos, passengers arrival indexes, naturalizations, Native Americans, African Americans, workshops.
 * South Caroliniana Library (Univ. of SC) 75,000 books/micrifilms, 1.3 manuscripts including genealogies, and the noteworthy collections of Leonardo Andrea, Bessie Lee Garvin, and Louise K. Crowder. *Richland County Public Library Accessible Archives, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest, SC Death Indexes 1915-1958 and many other websites
 * Lexington County Public Library System Lexington County Obituary Index, and HeritageQuest Online.
 * Historic Columbia Foundation 6,500 artifacts including images.
 * South Carolina State Museum Prehistoric, Revolutionary and Colonial, Antebellum, Civil War, Post Civil War, African American History.
 * Lexington County Clerk of the Court criminal, common pleas, and family court.
 * Lexington County Register of Deeds
 * Richland County Clerk of the Court criminal, common pleas, and family court.
 * Richland County Register of Deeds includes marriage licenses since 1911 (index online).
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: Fairfield County, Kershaw County, Sumter County, Calhoun County, Lexington County, Newberry County.
 * Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Archives, Dalco Historical Soc., Charleston, colonial parish records.
 * Repositories in other surrounding states: North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee.
 * State Library of N. Car., Raleigh, family history, Bibles, marriage, death, newspaper, deeds, photos.
 * North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, census, military, courts, bond, deed, estate, vital records, wills.
 * Georgia Archives, Morrow, genealogies, county histories, newspapers, tax digests, private papers, church records, cemeteries, Bible records, a few municipal records, census, maps, land plats, photographs, Georgia Confederate service and pension records, colonial, headright, and bounty land grants, land lottery, and Georgia county records.
 * Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, vital records, censuses, county records, tax lists, local histories, school censuses, military records, Native Americans, newspapers, obituary lists, and maps.
 * Dallas Public Central Library Texas, 111,700 volumes, 64,500 microfilms, 89,000 microfiche, and over 700 maps, marriage, probate, deed, and tax abstracts in book form, or microfilm of originals for some states, and online databases.