| South Carolina Statewide Online Genealogy Records
This chart shows links to statewide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county or town), go to Locating Online Databases.
Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local
family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
|
| Vital RecordsBirths
Marriages
- South Carolina, Marriages, 1709-1913 Index only Incomplete.
- South Carolina Marriages, 1641-1965 Index only ($)
- South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799 Abstracts($)
- South Carolina Marriages, 1800-1820 Abstracts ($)
- Supplement to South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1820 ($)
- South Carolina, Newspaper Marriage Notices, 1732-1801 ($)
- South Carolina Baptist Deaths and Marriages, 1866-87 ($)
- South Carolina, County Marriages, 1910-1990 ($) Index and images
Deaths
- Online South Carolina Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries, index
- South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1955 Index and images ($)
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1915-1943 Index and images.
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1944-1955 Index only.
- South Carolina Death Index, 1950-1952 ($)
- United States Social Security Death Index
- U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ($)
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, incomplete, ($).
- South Carolina Baptist Deaths and Marriages, 1866-87 ($)
Archives and Libraries
African Americans
- South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872, images/no index
- U.S., Freedmen's Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878 ($) index and images
- Upstate S.C. Black Heritage Researching
- Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census by County
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1800 South Carolina Census, by County/ District
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1810 South Carolina Census, by family name
- Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census, index ($)
- Low Country Africana: South Carolina Slaveholders, A-M, index, N-Z
- WPA Federal Writers' Project Materials on African American Life in South Carolina
- South Carolina's African American Confederate pensioners, 1923-1925, e-book
- Black Slave Owners; Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, e-book
- African American obituaries, funeral programs, and cemetery records, index
- AfriGeneas, African Ancestored Genealogy, index
- Voyages: Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Biographies
Cemetery Records
Census
Compiled Genealogies
Court Records
Directories
History
Immigration Records
- South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists, 1904-1942 — index and images
- A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773, ($), index/images
- The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700.... e-book
- Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers, e-book
- Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829
- South Carolina, Passenger Lists, 1906-1962, index and images, ($)
Land
|
Maps
Military Records General Records
- South Carolina Loyalists, index
- Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution Index only ($)
- U.S., Registers of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914 Index and images.
- U.S., Old War Pension Index, 1815-1926 Index Only.
- U.S., General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
- U.S., National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938 Partial index and images.
- U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Index only.
- U.S., Index to General Correspondence of the Pension Office, 1889-1904 Index only.
- U.S., Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933 Index and images.
Colonial Soldiers
Indian Wars, dates vary
Revolutionary War, 1774-1783
- United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783 — images
- U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Applications, 1800-1900 Index (free) and images ($)
- U.S., Revolutionary War Compiled Service Records, 1775-1783 Index (free) and images ($)
- U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls for South Carolina, 1775-1783 ($)
- U.S., Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 Images only.
- U.S., Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872 Images only.
- Revolutionary Claims Filed in South Carolina between August 20, 1783 and August 31, 1786, e-book
War of 1812, 1812-1815
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Civil War, 1861-1865
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database
- U.S., Civil War Widows and Other Dependents Pension Files, 1861-1934 Index (free) and images ($); incomplete
- U.S., Civil War and Later Pension Index, 1861-1917 Index (free) and images ($)
- South Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 Index and images.
- U.S., Confederate Service Records, 1861-1865, index and images, ($).
- U.S., Records of Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865 Images only.
- U.S. Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865 Browseable index only.
- U.S., Confederate Navy and Marine Service Records, 1861-1865 Images only.
- U.S., Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942 Index only.
- United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890 — index and images
- SC Dept. Archives and History Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1909-1973 Index.
Spanish-American War, 1898
World War I, 1917-1918
World War II, 1941-1945
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnam War, 1964-1972
Naturalization
Newspapers
Obituaries
Probate Records
- South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980, ($), index and images, incomplete.
- South Carolina, Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977 Index and images.
- South Carolina, Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964 Index and images.
- SC Dept. Archives and History Will Transcripts, 1782-1855 Index.
- South Carolina wills and other court records, e-book
- Records of the Secretary of the Province and the Register of the Province of South Carolina, 1671-1675
- Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina, ($), index
- A genealogical collection of South Carolina wills and records. v.1, e-book
Tax Records
|
