User:Kmnwestbye/sandbox South Carolina

Online Gazetteers

 * FamilySearch Places
 * South Carolina Hometown Locator
 * South Carolina Gazetteer and Business Directory 1890-91 South Carolina Gazetteer and Business Directory 1890-91. Abstracted and posted on Colleton County SCGenWeb site
 * Boundary line between North Carolina and South Carolina Alexander Samuel Salley. Boundary line between North Carolina and South Carolina. Columbia, South Carolina : Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1929. Digital Publisher FamilySearch International

Print Only Gazetteers

 * On the frontier of Virginia & North & South Carolina : a gazetteer of the first "Old West" Carrie Eldridge. On the frontier of Virginia & North & South Carolina : a gazetteer of the first "Old West". Chesapeake, Ohio : C. Eldridge, ©1999
 * South Carolina Atlas and Gazetteer South Carolina Atlas and Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine : DeLorme, c2003
 * South Carolina Geographic Names U S Office of Geographic Research. South Carolina Geographic Names. Reston, Virginia : U.S. Geological Survey, [198-?]
 * East Cooper gazetteer : people, places, and events in history Suzanne Smith Miles. East Cooper Gazetteer : people, places, and events in history. Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, c2004

Why Use Gazetteers
A gazetteer is a dictionary of place-names. Gazetteers list or describe towns and villages, parishes, states, populations, rivers and mountains, and other geographical features. They usually include only the names of places that existed at the time the gazetteer was published. Within a specific geographical area, the place-names are listed in alphabetical order, similar to a dictionary. You can use a gazetteer to locate the places where your family lived and to determine the civil and religious jurisdictions over those places.

There are many places within a state with similar or identical place-names. You will need to use a gazetteer to identify the specific town where your ancestor lived, the state the town was or is in, and the jurisdictions where records about the person was kept.

Gazetteer Contents
Gazetteers may also provide additional information about towns, such as:


 * Different religious denominations
 * Schools, colleges, and universities
 * Major manufacturers, canals, docks, and railroad stations
 * The population size.
 * Boundaries of civil jurisdiction.
 * Ecclesiastical jurisdiction(s)
 * Longitude and latitude.
 * Distances and direction from other from cities.
 * Schools, colleges, and universities.
 * Denominations and number of churches.
 * Historical and biographical information on some individuals (usually high-ranking or famous individuals)