South Carolina Genealogy

Pre-Colonial and Colonial History

Hernando de Soto passed through the area in the 1540s in his search for gold, and several decades later Juan Pardo entered what is now York County and recorded his observation of a predominant Native American tribe, later confirmed to be the Catawba, in the vicinity of present-day Fort Mill, on the eastern bank of the Catawba River. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve added a few new research links in the right hand column on the site. The first is wikitree, which is a free, publicly collaborated world family tree project. Next up is the Encyclopedia of Genealogy which has some nice background resource information. This is also free and publicly collaborated. The last is Linkpendium, which claims over 2,000,000 links to Genealogy resources. (Admittedly 146 of those at least are to my two sites, as they link directly to county pages). They are worth a visit though as it’s amazing how much they have in there *(and how quickly things are added, this site was added within a week or so of it’s beginnings, and I don’t recall asking for it to be included, I am thankful for the link though.)

I’ve gone ahead and made it through the counties starting with the letter G, so Georgetown, Greenville, and Greenwood Counties have been updated in the second pass through.

I’ve updated the information on Fairfield and Florence counties. (Updated the spelling of Fairfield, from Fiarfield, so links to the page may need to be adjusted accordingly.) I’ve been able to add a bit of information on those counties and continue progressing alphabetically on the second pass through the county links revision.

I’ve updated Edgefield County, so there should be a bit more information there now. Also, I’ve added Cemetery Transcriptions links on counties where that information is available. On many it is not yet available, but those have been added up through the letter “E”, which, unfortunately did not have any entries. I do have one more note in regards to the USGS cemetery listings.
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According to Myrtle Beach’s “The Sun News”, a Columbia film-maker has had his film showcased. What makes it unique and worth mentioning here, is the story is based in part on that of his 2nd-great grandfather. The film is set during the later stages of the Civil War and centers on the romance between a Confederate Capt. and a Northern girl.
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As I’ve noted on the North Carolina site, the concept of News in genealogy can be relative. Sometimes it’s newsworthy to discover where an ancestor was born over one hundred years ago. I expect this category may have a wide range of items that don’t fit in elsewhere.

The Siege of Charleston is one the major battles which took place towards the end of the American Revolutionary War in which the British began to shift their focus towards the southern colonies. From 1777-1778, they had a considerable amount of success, namely in Georgia with the Siege of Savannah. The prestige thus won by the British in the south in 1779 was immensely increased in the following year, when they victoriously swept up through South and North Carolina.
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The Battle of Eutaw Springs was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, the last engagement of the war in the Carolinas.

On May 22, 1781, General Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army had attempted to storm the strong British post at Fort Ninety-Six but was repulsed. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve made it through the letter ‘D’ now with the revision of the county pages. That means that everything through Dorchester county has had a second look. Lot’s more information for most every county is there this time around.