NGS Research in the States: South Carolina

NGS Special Publication No. 102. An excellent beginning point for starting genealogical research in this state.

South Carolina was founded as an English colony in 1663 and from the outset was a slave state with a plantation culture. Research in South Carolina provides family historians and genealogists an overview of the state’s history and valuable information about its major archives, libraries, and societies as well as online resources.

The guidebook outlines where genealogists can find critical records including Bible, cemetery, census, church, and institutional records. The author provides extensive discussion of ethnic records for African Americans, French Huguenots, Germans, Irish, Scots, Scots-Irish, and Native Americans. Also covered in depth are military and land records. Sources for atlases, maps, gazetteers, directories, and newspapers are included as well as probate, tax, vital, and voter records.

Janis Walker Gilmore

2011, 8.5" x 11", paper, 48 pp.

ISBN: 9781935815020

619-102