South Carolina Archives and Libraries: Difference between revisions

:Indexes to Confederate Pension Applications, 1919-1926, Criminal Journals, 1769-1776, Plats for State Land Grants, 1784 to 1868, and Will Transcripts 1782 to 1855 as well as other records.

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

:One of their strengths is colonial immigrant records. They also have biographies, genealogies, and early newspapers.<ref name="DB101" /> A helpful guide to the manuscript collection of this society is David Moltke-Hansen and Sallie Doscher, “''South Carolina Historical Society Manuscript Guide'',” ''South Carolina Historical Magazine'', July 1979 (Charleston: South Carolina Historical Society, 1979) {{WorldCat|20335784|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|1288570|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975.7 B2s, vol. 80, no. 3, supp.; film 1697883 item 13}}<br><br>

: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:

:*Margaretta Childs, and Isabella G. Leland, "South Carolina Episcopal Church Records," ''South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine'' 84 (October 1983): 250-63. {{WorldCat|49042081}}; digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/27567808 JSTOR] ($); {{FSC|53362|item|disp=FS Library Book 975.7 B2s v. 84}}.

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

:The Charleston County Public Library possesses a large number of books, maps, manuscripts, and images covering a wide variety of local history and genealogical topics.<ref>[http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?name=Site&catID=5402&parentID=5372 South Carolina History {{amp}} Genealogy] in ''Charleston County Public Library'' (accessed 9 November 2016).</ref> These resources are divided into two separate departments. The South Carolina Room houses local and regional history and genealogy materials, focusing on the history and genealogy of South Carolina, with special emphasis on Charleston and the Lowcountry.<ref>[http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?name=Site&catID=11877&parentID=5402 South Carolina Room] in ''Charleston County Public Library'' (accessed 9 November 2016).</ref> The Special Collections Department is an archive of historic manuscripts, books and visual materials representing Charleston and the surrounding Lowcountry. Access to the original materials in Special Collections is by appointment only, but much of the unique manuscript material is available on microfilm or photocopies in the South Carolina Room.<ref>[http://www.ccpl.org/content.asp?name=Site&catID=10364&parentID=5402 The Charleston Archive] in ''Charleston County Public Library'' (accessed 9 November 2016).</ref><br><br>

:This is one of the finest genealogical facilities in the South with a very large collection of family folders, and genealogies.<ref name="DB101" /><br><br>

:South Carolina reference materials with good indexes.<ref name="DB101" /><br><br>

: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>

: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>

: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>

:This is and outstanding collection for South Carolian and the South, including manuscripts, genealogies, histories, atlases, and gazeteers.<ref name="DB101" /> A useful guide to the manuscript collection of this library is Allen H. Stokes, ''A Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the South Caroliniana Library'' (Columbia, South Carolina: The Library, 1982); {{WorldCat|8956047|At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|280355|item|disp=FS Catalog book 975.7 A3s; fiche 6101065}}<br><br>

:This is a premier genealogy collection for South Carolina. The outstanding Janie Reville Collection is well indexed. You can find references to nearly all South Carolina families here.<ref name="DB101" />

: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>

: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>

: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>

: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>