South Carolina Department of
Archives & History SCDAH has
reorganized their site and it is much easier to get
around in. Be sure to check out their online index to
selected records. Some record series have been scanned
and are available online (Civil War Pension Applications,
School Insurance Photos), and more are planned.
SCDAH Online Index A searchable
index to many record series at the SC Archives. Series
indexed includes colonial land grants, plats and
memorials; state plats; many other records are indexed
here. Poke around, read the Record Series Descriptions.
There is much to learn and much research can be done at
this site.
[2008 update: the Online
Index search engine has been modified and the old site is
no longer in existence. Many images of the old records
have been scanned and are now available online. These
include the 1919-1936 Civil War Pensions for CSA veterans
and widows; also a number of African-American pensioners.
Some of the plats have been scanned in, including the SC
Colonial plats that were recorded in the Colonial Plat
Books. Images of early Presentments by South Carolina
grand juries from various districts are online, as are
old insurance school pictures from the early to mid 20th
Century for most counties.]
South Carolina Historical Society with searchable
catalogs of their holdings.
Caroliniana
Library at the University of South
Carolina in Columbia.
Leonardo Andrea Files An important and
often overlooked resource for some local families.
Clements
Library in Ann Arbor,
Michigan. See their collection of original South Carolina
documents, especially from the colonial and Revolutionary
War period. They will perform a search, or rent the
microfilm. On the website you will have to search the
alphabetical index to the collection, for instance under
"L" you will find the Lyttleton
Collection - original papers of Colonial
South Carolina Governor William Henry Lyttleton.
Documenting
the American South First Hand
Narratives of the American South. A site provided by the
University of North Carolina. Contains full
transcriptions of important documents, manuscripts, first
hand accounts, etc. Includes such items as the diary of
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, slave narratives, Confederate
War accounts, much more.
SC Death Certificates Online
A searchable DHEC site where the index to the death
certificates (1915-1957) is viewable. A small viewing
program must be downloaded.
National
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Search for manuscripts and their repositories. A brief
search turned up such things as South Carolina slaves in
a Pennsylvania Repository; Orderly Books of Francis
Marion; William Moultrie, Peter Horry, and the 2nd SC
Regiment in a library in San Marino, California. The letterbook of Lieutenant
Edward J. Means who was Commandant of the Confederate
Naval Station at Marion Court House, South Carolina;
includes names, ages, classifications of men employed at
the Pee Dee Navy Yard, correspondence, more - in a
library in Baton Rouge. No telling what else may be
located using this site.
Virginia Religious Petitions A Collaborative Project of The
Library of Congress and The Library of Virginia, with
links to explanations of petitions, maps of Virginia, and
a search engine that pulls up images of the original
petitions. Especially helpful for Virginia counties such
as Nansemond and Isle of Wight where many Pee Dee
families originated.
Libraries - World Catalog A search engine for every book
in every library in the world. Well, almost. They state:
Over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries
worldwide. It seems to work really well and quickly.
(Thanks to Buddy Harrelson for finding this one.)
Names
in South Carolina Volumes I-XII, 1954-1965, Edited by Claude
Henry Neuffer. The complete text of these volumes is
posted on the University of South Carolina website.
Browse, reading each page, or use their search engine for
pages that contain specific words (though search seems to
have some problems). There are occasional errors in
spelling, due to apparent use of optical character
recognition software. For those who aren't familiar with
this series by Professer Neuffer, be prepared to be
pleasantly surprised.
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