Carolina Border Strategy
The NC–SC line through the Waxhaws ignored family life—search both states on purpose.
Lancaster families frequently straddle the state line. Church membership, land descriptions, and marriages may sit in North Carolina collections while the household appears on a South Carolina census page (or the reverse). Build a border research log: same surnames, both states, same decade.
See also The Waxhaws settlement and the NC sister site in the footer network.