South Carolina Genealogy

As you may have noticed I’m adding RSS feeds for the county Forums to each County page as posts accumulate there.

So, I’ve added the feed today to the Spartanburg County Genealogy page. There now should be forum feeds on 25 pages including a feed for the statewide forum and an aggregate feed for the entire forum. So…. that means we’ve now got 23 o the counties setup with a forum feed on the page which marks the halfway point!

Update 11/11–
Greenville County Genealogy now has the forum feed (and apparently I had left out forum links there originally – that’s now corrected.

Just a housekeeping note to mention that I’ve made slight updates to the Oconee and Saluda County pages. Also, I’m going to start putting rss feeds from the respective forums into the county profile pages. So, the Union County page would have an rss feed with the latest posts from the Union county forum. I hope to do the same wiht all the pages evenutally, but currently I’ll just be highlighting the counties that already have forum posts. That should help give the posts a bit more visibility.

Counties that now have the rss feed – Aiken, Barnwell, Berkeley, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Georgetown, Hampton, Kershaw, Laurens, Lee, Marlboro, Orangeburg, Sumter, Union, York and I’ve added the St. Andrews forum to the Charleston County Page.

–update 10/10 —
Also Dillon County has the feed from the Forums. (Also added forum feed and edits for Richland. Edits on Williamsburg County.)

You have probably noticed the many google rss feeds that I use on this site. It’s really easy to let google do a lot of your “news reading” for you these days and you don’t have to have anything fancier than an email address and a web browser to set things up. First off, visit news.google.com and type in a search that you want to keep informed about. (South Carolina Genealogy for instance). Then when the result comes up…

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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.

South Carolina History Resources

South Carolina Department of Archives and History

South Carolina State Library

SC African American Baptist Conventions

South Carolina Marriage Records

South Carolina Marriage Records

Genealogy Directory

South Carolina Genealogy Mine

South Carolina Genealogy and History Directory

South Carolina State Government

South Carolina State Government site

South Carolina Tourism and State Parks

South Carolina Tourism

South Carolina State Parks

Brief History of the State of South Carolina

SC Genweb

South Carolina SCGenweb site

South Carolina Genweb Archives page

South Carolina Cemeteries

South Carolina Cemetery transcriptions from Interment.net

SCCemetery GPS Mapping Project

burials of Americans of African Descent

South Carolina Genealogy Forums for Queries

SC Statewide Queries

Here are the most recent forum posts in the Statewide forum here:

Here’s the summary feed from all the South Carolina Genealogy Forums hosted here:

Genforum SC Board

Some “South Carolina” Genealogy related News items

As I am able I will add information and links specific to each county of South Carolina. The ultimate goal for these pages is fairly ambitious. It includes: brief summary of county history, highlight of historic events that took place in this county, points of interest in the county, genweb site for the county, census links, vital record links, tax transcriptions, cemetery links, etc. for each county, list of towns for each county. Further down the road I wouldn’t mind giving a one – two sentence footnote for each town, links to town websites. You will also find I’m starting to include some relevant news feeds on the county pages, these can give you an idea of “what’s going on” in the county these days.

You will find the listing of the counties to the right in the sidebar just beneath the “South Carolina Counties” entry.

There are currently a total of 46 counties in South Carolina.

Abbeville County Genealogy Aiken Allendale Anderson Bamberg Barnwell Beaufort Berkeley Calhoun Charleston County Genealogy Cherokee Chester Chesterfield Clarendon County Genealogy Colleton Darlington Dillon Dorchester Edgefield Fairfield County Genealogy Florence Georgetown Greenville County Genealogy Greenwood Hampton Horry Jasper Kershaw Lancaster Laurens County Genealogy Lee County Genealogy Lexington Marion Marlboro McCormick Newberry Oconee Orangeburg Pickens Richland County Genealogy Saluda Spartanburg County Genealogy Sumter Union County Genealogy Williamsburg York County Genealogy

Here are the most recent forum posts in the Statewide forum here:

Here’s the summary feed from all the South Carolina Genealogy Forums hosted here:

News related to South Carolina