South Carolina Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

*'''1500s-1900s''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7486/?arrival=_south+carolina-usa_43&count=50 All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s] at Ancestry; index only ($); ''Also at [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10017/passenger-immigration-lists-1500-1900?s=1&formId=pili&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar MyHeritage]''; index only ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*'''1763-1773''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48270 A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773] at Ancestry; index & images ($)

*'''1772''' [https://books.google.com/books?id=rts4J_rwXRsC Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers], e-book

*'''1820-1829''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48269 Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829] at Ancestry; index & images ($)

*'''1890-1924''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/341257?availability=Family%20History%20Library Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in South Carolina 1890-1924] at FamilySearch; images only

*'''1895-1956''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10942/united-states-border-crossings-from-canada-1895-1956?s=1&formId=collection_10942:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar&qevents=List United States, Border Crossings from Canada, 1895-1956] at MyHeritage; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*'''1895-1964''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1082/?arrival=_south+carolina-usa_43&count=50 All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964]  at Ancestry; index & images ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*'''1904-1942''' {{RecordSearch|2297290|South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists, 1904-1942}} at FamilySearch - [[South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images; ''Also at [https://www.findmypast.com/search/results?datasetname=united%20states%2c%20passenger%20and%20crew%20lists&state=south%20carolina&datasettitle=south%20carolina%2c%20georgetown%20passenger%20lists%2c%201904-1942&sid=999 FindMyPast]''; index & images ($)

*'''1906-1962''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2996 South Carolina, Passenger Lists, 1906-1962] at Ancestry; index & images ($)

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10119/immigrant-ships-transcribers-guild?s=1&formId=istg&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.south%2F3carolina+epmo.similar Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild] at MyHeritage; index only ($)

*'''1920-1939''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10924/germany-bremen-emigration-lists-1920-1939?s=1&formId=collection_10924:searchFormDef&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=master,immigration&p=1&qevents-event1=Event+et.any+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar&qevents=List Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10019/germans-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar Germans Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10030/italians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar Italians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-10029/russians-immigrating-to-the-united-states?s=1&formId=immigration-norels&formMode=1&useTranslation=1&exactSearch=&action=query&initialFormIds=immigration,pili,immigration-norels&p=1&qimmigration=Event+et.immigration+ep.South%2F3Carolina+epmo.similar Russians Immigrating to the United States] at MyHeritage; index only ($); includes those with Destination of South Carolina

*'''1795-1925''' - {{RecordSearch|2185145|United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925}} at [https://www.familysearch.org/search FamilySearch] — index and images

*'''1795-1925''' - [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1174 U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925] Index and images, at Ancestry ($)

 

*About 80 percent of the settlers of colonial [[South Carolina Genealogy|South Carolina]] were of English origin. Many of them came by way of [[Barbados Genealogy|Barbados]] and other colonies rather than directly from [[England Genealogy|England]].<ref>Warren Alleyne and Henry Fraser, ''The Barbados-Carolina Connection'' (London: Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1988). {{WorldCat|17840897|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|428472|item|disp=FHL book 972.981 H2a}}; David L. Kent, ''Barbados and America''. (Arlington, Va.: C.M. Kent, 1980). {{WorldCat|6647288|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|316574|item|disp=FHL book 972.981 X2b}}. In 1664, a "group of Barbadians joined in an agreement to settle in Carolina." In the twentieth century, this document was kept in the South Carolina Historical Society Collection (reference V/29). See: Moriarty, Appendix, ''Barbados Genealogies,'' p. 670.</ref>

*State-sponsored recruiting efforts brought in a few hundred Germans between 1866 and 1868 and about 2,500 northern Europeans in the early 1900s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Customs records for the ports of Charleston, Georgetown, and Beaufort are at the [[South Carolina Department of Archives and History]]. Several published records of pre-1900 immigrants are indexed in P. William Filby, ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index'' (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Company, 1981, 1985, 1986) {{WorldCat|7385897|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|291926|item|disp=FHL book 973 W32p}}. Supplements are issued annually. There are cumulative indexes.

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== South Carolina Migration Routes ==

 

 

 

=== Virginia Immigrants ===

Bell published a series of articles about Southside Virginians who migrated to eighteenth-century South Carolina. Her strategy demonstrates how to find migration records:  

*Bell, Mary McCampbell. "Some Migrations from Virginia to South Carolina," ''The South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research'', Vol. 9, No. 3 (Summer 1981):143-144; Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 1981):183-190; Vol. 10, No. 1 (Winter 1982):37-42; Vol. 10, No. 2 (Spring 1982):70-77; Vol. 10, No. 3 (Summer 1982):136-143; Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring 1983):97-102; Vol. 12, No. 1 (Winter 1984):19-21; Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 1984):94-99; Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer 1985):127-129. {{FHL|43856|item|disp=FHL Book 975.7 B2sc v. 9-13}}