South Carolina Genealogy

It’s unusual that I post verbatim an item on both the North and South Carolina Genealogy sites (google doesn’t like duplication…) But… for this I’m making an exception!

I’m reposting the Declaration of Independence here in celebration of the events of 1776! Also, you might enjoy this reading of the declaration you can find at monticello.org podcasts done by a portrayer of Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker). (It may also be interesting to hear the rough draft of the declaration.)

Transcription of the Declaration of Independence, plus links to the Declaration at the National Archives.

This document, writted originally by Thomas Jefferson in June of 1776 documents the greivances that the colonists had against King George and asserts our right to be an independent state.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

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I can’t believe my last post here was January! I had tried to keep up with a post a week for my sites for quite a while and managed it, but frankly it’s just too fast a pace with work and everything (and about 10 sites!). So, I won’t be posting as frequently as that in the future. I hope to be putting out a post once a month, but to be honest, it could be every other month, or two or three in a day and then nothing for a month or two. I do try to keep updating the pages behind the scenes so hopefully our resources are getting a bit more complete as time goes by. Hopefully the less ambitious posting will mean that when I have time I will be able to put out better in depth posts and devote more time to the real heart of the site which is our county resource pages.

So, the last few weeks have been quite hectic. To start out with I had a project to work on a web site for a place that does self storage in Greenville, SC and that was closely followed by its sister site that also does self storage in Greenville, SC. I seem to recall several weekends that I worked through with one computer issue after another. including two hard drive replacements over one weekend… then after those projects we started passing a nasty bug around our family and as we recovered, then had to get everything together for our scheduled trip to the beach.

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It gets a bit more difficult to accumulate the most popular names before 1880, to get these, the census has to be gleaned and filtered for birth year. I’m using this site as a reference for prior to 1880:

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Here are the most popular baby names from the year 1890:

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You may have noticed that we had a 24-36 hour vanishing act. From the information I saw there was an emergency hardware replacement on our server that hosts southcarolinagenealogy.org I think this may have been the longest outage I’ve seen with our host. (Wouldn’t have enjoyed being in the server room for all of that…) Anyway, things seem to be back up and running at this point pretty well. Soon, I will be looking at a major wordpress upgrade here, but hopefully there won’t be much outward changing as I do that.

Thanks for stopping by and may you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here is the listing of the most common baby names in 1910:

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Here is the listing of most popular baby names from 1930:

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Here are the most popular baby names from 1950:

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Here’s the listing of popular baby names from 1970:

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Here’s the list of Popular Baby Names from the year 1990:

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