South Carolina Genealogy

It’s been a while since I’ve made some posts here, but as I’ve mentioned on my North Carolina Genealogy site, I am recommitting to a routine posting for my sites. My goal here is one post a week. I have an article series starting Tuesday (January 22nd, 2008) on the North Carolina Genealogy site that would be of general interest to any visitors here as well. The series is covering some of the many problems that we genealogists in the digital age face. On this site however, I plan to post on Wednesday’s. I don’t have a general topic of articles for here yet, but I may at one point run a similar series here. For the time being my post plans here are directly related to South Carolina Genealogy and History. In the meantime, welcome and have a look around. There are a few other notes to make.

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Just cleaning out some comment spam that’s accumulated for the last couple months. Sorry for the mess… if I’ve deleted legit comments, sorry too, but it just takes too much to try and doublecheck them all.

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I’ve also released an Audio CD with 28 traditional hymns done as “chimes”. It’s called Chimes Vol. 1 and is available at lulu.com as well. (The individual songs are downloadable as well if you want to “mix and match”. My lulu.com storefront is at stores.lulu.com/ajparker. The CD is $8 plus shipping and handling (again the USPS option is the cheapest ~$2). The hymns included are: Abide With Me, Amazing Grace, At the Cross, Blest Be the Tie that Binds, Break Thou the Bread of Life, Close to Thee, Footsteps of Jesus, God Be With You, Have Thine Own Way, He Hideth My Soul, I Have Decided to Follow Jesus, I’ll Live for Him, I Must Tell Jesus, I Need Thee Every Hour, In the Garden, Jesus Lover of My Soul, Jesus Loves Me, Jesus Loves the Little Children, Jesus Saves, Leaning On the Everlasting Arms, More About Jesus, My Jesus I Love Thee, Nearer My God to Thee, Pass Me Not, Praise Him Praise Him, Rock of Ages, There is a Fountain, Trust and Obey.

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I thought I would mention this here, since the www.northcarolinagenealogy.net site is still non-existent in the google search results… (11 months of banishment..) Anyway, I’ve made a calendar for 2007 with a variety of pictures from around the area near the house. Woods, flowers blooming, trees, fall leaves, etc.

You can take a look at it at this link to the 2007 WNC calendar. There is a preview with thumbnails of the pictures used from that link.

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I’ve made it through Marion County, Marlboro County, and McCormick County today, so there are a few more resources there. (mostly Marlboro County.) I’ve also disabled the news feeds from Yahoo news on the Pages (still on the front page though), as they were causing some weird irrelevant and sometimes offensive ads to show up. Hopefully that will remedy the issue.

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Lancaster, Laurens, Lee, and Lexington Counties have now been updated to approximately the same amount of information as their alphabetically listed predecessors. (Only 14 SC counties left to revise at this point!)

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I’m on the second half of South Carolina Counties here, today Jasper and Kershaw saw their updates.

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The title says it all, on my second pass through revising the county information I’ve updated Hampton and Horry Counties.

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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.)

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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.

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