African American Resources for South Carolina

Many resources exist that document the lives of African-Americans, however, few people know about them. Visit this page often to learn about proven stategies and records which will help document African-American progenitors who lived in South Carolina.

= Resources: =


 * African-American Funeral Homes
 * African-American Historical Places
 * Militia Enrollments, 1869
 * Newspapers

Vital Records

 * Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriage Records 1885-1951
 * Social Security Death Index
 * Voter's Records
 * WWI Draft Registrations (1917-1918)
 * Obituary Index/Death Records

Census

 * Federal Census Records
 * Slave Census
 * Mortality Schedules


 * Google Books
 * Church Records

Plantation Records

 * Records of southern plantations from emancipation to the great migration. Series C, Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina; Ira Berlin; Ariel W Simmons; South Caroliniana Library;  Bethesda, MD : LexisNexis, ©2004
 * A genealogical index to the guides of the microfilm edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War / compiled by Jean L. Cooper; [Bloomington, Ind.] : 1stBooks, ©2003.
 * History of the American Negro
 * Cemeteries
 * City Directories

Reconstruction

 * Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction By Edmund L. Drago (Google Books)
 * The Miscellaneous Documents of the Senateof the United States...‎1877 (Google Books)
 * Congressional serial set By United States. Government Printing Office (Google Books) See also Angela McComas, Congress and My Family History (12 minute online video) FamilySearch Research Classes Online, and Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, 2010.
 * Evidence taken by the Committee of Investigation of the Third Congressional...(Google Books)

= Online Resources  =


 * Inventory of SC Church Archives 1937-1939
 * Census of the city of Charleston, South Carolina: for the year 1861 By Charleston (S.C.). City Council
 * 1850-1880 US Agricultural Schedule for Abbeville-York Counties
 * The Andrea Files
 * South Carolina Department of Archives and History Online Records Index (SCDAH)
 * Search the holdings at SCDAH Search for these specific records: Freedmen's, freeholders, negro, manumissions, arrest warrants, marriage licenses,
 * South Carolina Deaths 1915-1943
 * South Carolina Deaths 1944-1955
 * South Caroliniana Library: Manuscript Division
 * South Carolina Slave Trader's List
 * Newberry Library Resources: South Carolina
 * In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina.
 * South Carolina Statewide Indexes and Collections
 * South Carolina Historical Background
 * South Carolina Resources at AfriGeneas

Family History Library 1771-1868 Bills of Sale of Slaves and Manumissions: South Carolina.