Clarendon County, South Carolina Queries

• 1. Please enter a query here ONLY if you have roots in Clarendon County. Mention Clarendon County in your query so that I am sure that it belongs on the Sumter page.
• 2. Include your full name in your query request.
• 3. Please put New Clarendon County Query in the subject area of your message. I coordinate other counties and as assistant state coordinator for SCGenWeb, I often take on the duty of posting queries to an orphan county. I must know which county you want your query posted to.
• 4. Please write your query in this order: querysurname(s) in upper case letters, query text, date of posting, your full name, and your e-mail address. (Send your mailing address, fax/phone number if desired.) This format will save me time and simplify the process of copy and paste so that I will make fewer errors in posting. Your e-mail address and full name are required before a query can be posted.
• 5. Please limit the content of your query to just the basic data that someone needs in order to assist you. This not only helps conserve server space, but will generate more responses for you. People tend to pay more attention to shorter, direct requests. I may have to edit queries that seem overly long.
• 6. Once you see that your query is up, please check your query for accuracy and make sure that your e-mail link works.
• 7. If your e-mail address changes, please notify me of your new address as soon as possible. Be sure to let me know exactly which page in which county your entry is on. I take care of a number of pages with hundreds of queries and surnames, so searching for your entry would be very time consuming. I cannot change the query or e-mail address if I don't know the exact name or url of the page.

I coordinate the web pages for other counties, so I must know which county you want your query posted to, plus I am on a number of mailing lists so I tend to delete some of the of e-mails that clutter my mail box with out reading all of them unless the subject catches my attention. If "Clarendon Query" is not placed in the subject area, it might be deleted without being read because there are days when I get 100 or more messages. I just can't read all of them. Please grab my attention with your subject line. I don't want to delete your message by mistake.

I will let you know when I receive your query and when you can expect to see your query posted. When contacting me by mail, unless you include a self-address-stamped envelope, I cannot acknowledge the receipt of your letter. Please remember that I am a volunteer for the SCGenWeb project, and that I only post information to the web pages that I coordinate for others to view via the internet; I am not available for doing any personal research.

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Please Remember

I am quite willing to share information on the surnames that I research, but please understand that I am an amatuer genealogist, researching my own family lines. I do not research other surnames. . Please, do not write to me asking me to do a "quick" lookup in something like a Clarendon County census or run to the courthouse for you and mail you a copy of a will. 

I won't know anything about your family history unless we happen to share ancestors. I spend all of my spare time as a volunteer taking care of the Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee County SCGenWeb sites. What little spare time I have left, I devote to researching my own family tree, working as a teacher in Sumter County, sponsoring my schools First Priority and Math Clubs, and working with the South Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 

Clarendon County has a wonderful archives with a knowledgeable and helpful archivist. Sumter County has one of the best local archives in the state of South Carolina and the courthouse has won awards for their preservation of old records. Since Clarendon County was once part of Old Sumter District, you will find a great deal of Clarendon County data in the Sumter Archives. If you need information about where to research here in Old Sumter District, just e-mail me. The Clarendon County Archives is also working very hard to build up a fantastic collection of materials.