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=== South Carolina === | === South Carolina === | ||
''History of South Carolina'' (Chicago | ''History of South Carolina'' (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1920) edited by Yates Snowden, comprises five volumes. Like most of history books, the biographies of individuals who paid to be included in the publications are given a page or two to give a brief history of themselves and sometimes their families. Fortunately, there is an index, because the biographies have no certain order to them. | ||
Richard N. Cote, ''Local and Family History in South Carolina, A Bibliography'', (Easley, S. C. Southern Historical Press 1981). At the end there is an alphabetical surname index to many major South Carolina collections. It contains about 7,600 names. | Richard N. Cote, ''Local and Family History in South Carolina, A Bibliography'', (Easley, S. C. Southern Historical Press 1981). At the end there is an alphabetical surname index to many major South Carolina collections. It contains about 7,600 names. | ||
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Compiled records can also be found in periodicals. For this state there is ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research''. Along with abstracted records, included in these periodicals which are done on a quarterly basis, are memoirs of individuals, biographies, and histories of families. There is also a book review section and an index of these articles is available in a book under FHL Call #: 975.7, B2sc. | Compiled records can also be found in periodicals. For this state there is ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research''. Along with abstracted records, included in these periodicals which are done on a quarterly basis, are memoirs of individuals, biographies, and histories of families. There is also a book review section and an index of these articles is available in a book under FHL Call #: 975.7, B2sc. | ||
''The Carolina Herald and Newsletter'', which is an official publication of the South Carolina Genealogical Society and published quarterly, is another periodical worth searching through. Some of the editions do contain individual biographies and family histories, although there appears to be more abstracted and copied records. There is no indexing. | ''The Carolina Herald and Newsletter'', which is an official publication of the South Carolina Genealogical Society and published quarterly, is another periodical worth searching through. Some of the editions do contain individual biographies and family histories, although there appears to be more abstracted and copied records. There is no indexing. | ||
=== Tennessee === | === Tennessee === | ||