South Carolina Bible Records

United States South Carolina  Bible Records''   Bible records can be used as a substitute in providing birth, marriage, and date information when South Carolina did not record vital information. In Marion County, for example, clerks used family Bibles to create delayed birth certificates. Some collections and compilations of Bible records are listed below.

Start with the free Index to Early Bible Records (pre-1830; 17,000 entries).

DAR Bible Collections and Indexes 


 * [South Carolina] Genealogical Collection by the Daughters of the American Revolution


 * This collection is indexed in the following:


 * South Carolina Name Index to Genealogical Records - complete index
 * An Index to Some of the Family Records of the Southern States 35,000 microfilm references from the NSDAR files and Elsewhere by E. Kay Kirkham  Digital image on  - partial index


 * South Carolina Bible Records, vols 1-3 by the Daughters of the American Revolution

Other Bible Abstracts


 * Bible Records from the Southern States by Memory A. Lester - many are for South Carolina
 * Bible Records of South Carolina by Leonardo Andrea
 * South Carolina Bible Records by Dorothy Harris Phifer WorldCat

Copies, or abstracts of old family Bibles that are no longer known to exist, may survive in Revolutionary War Pension application files at NARA, Washington, D.C., which are available online at three commercial websites: Ancestry, Fold3, and Heritage Quest Online.

Online Bible Indexes:


 * South Carolina Bible Records on South Carolina Pioneers.net: Contains an index list of Bible records in their collection. You must be a member to see the contents of the Bible record.