South Carolina vital
records are one of the most valuable sources of South Carolina genealogical
information. They become especially helpful when they enable you to
find a copy of a birth record, death record, or marriage certificate which can
uncover other related names and localities. These South Carolina vital
records have been created by civil authorities as well as churches
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Contained here is an incomplete file of Black Death records of
Charleston, SC. The dates range from 1871 to 1889. This file contains the
following fields: last name, first name, date of death. Some of these names had
something written in the margin, which I have added under side notes.
Located in central South Carolina along the border with
Georgia, Aiken County was formed in 1871. This database is a collection of
records from Graniteville cemetery.
Records of deaths in the southern states during the American
Civil War are an important source of information for researchers of Confederate
soldiers. Due to the nature of war, however, records were destroyed and
information lost. This database of obituaries from the Columbia, South Carolina
area can help alleviate frustration relative to unavailable records.
Included in each entry is the name of the patriot, the cemetery in which the
headstone is found, and occasionally others who are located nearby or opposite
the grave.
One of the first newspapers in the state, the South Carolina
Gazette was an important source of news to residents in and around
Charleston in the eighteenth century.
The Southern Christian Advocate was the official publication
for the Methodist Conferences in the states of South Carolina, Georgia, and
Florida. Many marriage notices were included in the publication of this
periodical.