South Carolina Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

=== South Carolina State Library ===

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:Book collection is the largest in the state. They also have newspapers, biographies, and reference works.<ref name="DB101" /><br>

=== [[Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina Archives]] ===

:Many original Church of England (Episcopal Church) records dating from South Carolina's colonial period (1706-1778) are kept at this facility. The colonial government until 1785 requested the help of local Episcopal parishes in certain functions including record keeping. All surviving colonial parish registers have been published in ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' {{WorldCat|49042081}}; {{FSC|53362|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.7 B2s}}, or in book form.<ref>Alice Eichholz, ed., ''Redbook: American State, County, and Town Sources, 3rd ed.'' (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004), 600. ({{FSC|479190|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27rb}}). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55947869 WorldCat entry].</ref> For a descriptive inventory of surviving colonial and more recent parish records, see:

===Camden Archives and Museum===

:Their collection covers the whole state with many indexes, bibliographies, books, and periodicals.<ref name="DB101" /><br><br>

===Greenville Co Libr System Hughes Main Libr===

:This excellent book library has a good genealogy collection of South Carolina's former residents including family folders, biographies, and histories.<ref name="DB101" /><br><br>

===Orangeburg County Historical Society Library===

:Holdings include court records, family records, deeds, mortgages, surname folders, church records, cemetery transcripts, books and documents of local families.<ref name="DB101" /><br><br>

===[[South Carolina Genealogical Society]]===

:The [[South Carolina Genealogical Society|South Carolina Genealogical Society]], and the [http://oedgs.org/ Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society], at the Tompkins Memorial Library have newspapers, old [[Edgefield County, South Carolina|Edgefield County]] records such as probate wills and deeds, censuses and mortality tables. There is also an extensive collection of family histories, and over 2,000 surname files available to researchers, which contain Bible records, newspaper clippings, letters, lineage charts, and diary excerpts. The collection includes subject files which include church histories, and cemetery surveys. The old [[Ninety-Six District, South Carolina|Ninety-Six District]] is emphasized.<ref>Old Edgefield District Genealogical Society at http://oedgs.org/ (accessed 17 May 2011).</ref><br><br>

[[Image:Chattanooga Public Library TN.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Chattanooga Public Library, Tennessee]]

===[[Chattanooga Public Library Downtown]]===

:Includes the Upper South's largest family folder collection which is heavy on Tennessee, North Carolina, and '''South Carolina'''.<ref name="DB85">Dollarhide Bremer, 85.</ref> Internet genealogy databases, census, newspapers, obituary index, county records, 30,000 books, manuscripts, and genealogical periodicals.<ref>[https://chattlibrary.org/resources-genealogy/ Genealogy Resources] in ''Chattanooga Public Library'' (accessed 6 April 2021).</ref><br><br>

===[[Dallas Public Central Library]]===

   

:Outstanding genealogical collection with records for more than Texas, including '''South Carolina''', Oklahoma, the South, Mid-Atlantic, and New England states.<ref name="DB107">Dollarhide and Bremer, 107.</ref><br><br>

===[[National Archives at Atlanta]]===

:Records from over 100 federal agencies and courts in '''South Carolina'''. Also includes Vice Admiralty Courts of SC, evolution of federal courts, Constitutional rights, Revolutionary War, Civil War, reconstruction, World Wars I and II, and space exploration. Microfilms for censuses, diplomatic missions, military service records, bounty-land applications, passenger arrival lists, naturalizations, American Indians, and African Americans.<ref name="DB127">Dollarhide and Bremer, 127-28.</ref><br><br>

===[[Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown]]===

:Holds the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the '''''[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ Tina Brayton Collection]''''' which is equivalent to the ''[[Draper Manuscript Collection]] '' but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of Kentucky, North Carolina, '''South Carolina''', Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia families.<ref name="DB113">Dollarhide and Bremer, 113.</ref> <ref>[http://scgensoc.org/special-collections-tina-brayton-collection/ The Tina Brayton Collection] in ''Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County'' (accessed 3 January 2014).</ref><br><br>

*A helpful guide to research institutions in South Carolina is John Hammond Moore, ''Research Materials in South Carolina'' . . . (Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1967) {{WorldCat|768623|disp=

At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|195321|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975.7 A5m}}

*'''[https://publiclibraries.com/state/south-carolina/ South Carolina Libraries] (Government, Public, Academic)'''

*''Archives in Appalachia: A Directory''. Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985. {{WorldCat|12712710|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|497048|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975 A3a.}} The record covers the states of Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The record is arranged alphabetically by state, then by the name of the repository. Each entry lists the archive, its address, phone number, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, what subjects are covered by the collection, and the size of the collection. There are two indexes: Record type, and Subject, with reference numbers corresponding to the repository. Also included is a list, under “Coming Attractions,” of agencies that do not currently collect manuscript materials but plan to do so in the future.