Welcome to South Carolina! The American History & Genealogy Project is a group of independent webmasters linking together to share historical and genealogical data with researchers online. Please join us -- there are many states, counties, and topics to be explored! Our most pressing need in South Carolina right now is someone to adopt each county. If you would like to become a volunteer county 'parent,' or have information or data you would like to donate, please contact me. Angie Rayfield has stepped down as the South Carolina AHGP webmaster. She will be continuing with her sponsored counties at her request. I am taking over the South Carolina AHGP site operation along with the mail lists. We are sorry to see you go and thanks for all the time you have spent setting this site up. Your webmaster is Steven Stymiest. The South Carolina AHGP Mail List can be subscribed to by sending a message to: SC-AHGP with the word "subscribe" only in the body of the message.

This site has been relocated to: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/sc/state/.

Join us there. This page will be left here until January 2005, so please update your links and bookmarks.

The first ship to land in Charlestowne was the Carolina, which landed in April 1670. It was followed shortly by the Albemarle and the Port Royal. The 3 ships had left England with 150 people on board; 2 died enroute. Among the passengers on the Carolina was William Sayle, the first governor of Carolina. The original destination for the ships was Port Royal. The Kiawah Indians in that area convinced the settlers that Charlestowne was a better choice for farming, and the settlers observed that Charlestowne was further away from the Spanish settlement of St. Augustine.

The border between the "provinces" of North and South Carolina was surveyed east of the Catawba River in 1764, and west of the Catawba River in 1772. Prior to that time, much of what is now South Carolina was considered to be in North Carolina. South Carolina counties affected: Marlboro, Lancaster, York, Chester, Union, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, and Newberry. They were considered to be part of Bladen County (1741-1749), Anson County (1749- 1763), Mecklenburg County (1763-1769) and Tryon County (1769-1772). Deeds, wills, and estates should be checked in the North Carolina counties mentioned above. -- by Brent H. Holcomb, editor, South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research

Read A Brief History of South Carolina, from the South Carolina Department of Archives & History.

Abbeville Adopt me!	Aiken Adopt me!	Allendale Adopt me!	Anderson Adopt me!	Bamberg Adopt me!	Barnwell Adopt me!
Beaufort Adopt me!	Berkeley Ginny Magee	Calhoun Angie Rayfield	Charleston Ginny Magee Charleston New!	Cherokee Adopt me!	Chester Adopt me!
Chesterfield	Clarendon Adopt me!	Colleton Adopt me!	Darlington Adopt me!	Dillon Adopt me!	Dorchester Ginny Magee
Edgefield Adopt me!	Fairfield Adopt me!	Florence Adopt me!	Georgetown Adopt me!	Greenville Adopt me!	Greenwood Adopt me!
Hampton Adopt me!	Horry Adopt me!	Jasper Adopt me!	Kershaw Angie Rayfield	Lancaster Angie Rayfield	Laurens
Lee Adopt me!	Lexington Angie Rayfield	Marion Adopt me!	Marlboro Adopt me!	McCormick Adopt me!	Newberry New! Traci Parsons-Holder
Oconee Adopt me!	Orangeburg Angie Rayfield	Pickens Adopt me!	Richland Adopt me!	Saluda Adopt me!	Spartanburg Adopt me!
	Sumter Adopt me!	Union Adopted me!	Williamsburg Adopt me!	York Steven Stymiest

We still have lots of other counties looking for a good home... If you'd like to adopt a county, please email me.

We have some wonderful pictures of South Carolina, well worth taking a look. Thank you, Pam, for your kind donation!

• Andrea Files
• Ask SCIWay
• Avalon Project: Constitution of South Carolina - March 26, 1776
• Avalon Project: Constitution of South Carolina - March 19, 1778
• Early Settlers in South Carolina
• ROOTS-L U.S. Resources: South Carolina
• South Carolina American Local History Network (ALHN)
• South Carolina Genealogical Records On Line
• South Carolina General Assembly
• "Immigration, Its History and Present Condition," 1907 Handbook of South Carolina
• South Carolina Resources at Rootsweb
• South Carolina Information Highway
• South Carolina Maps From the Color Landform Atlas of the United States
• South Carolina Maps - 1895
• If you have a good URL for South Carolina Obituary Links Page
• South Carolina Obituary Search Engine
• If you have a good URL for South Carolina Places New!
• The Palmetto Experience - South Carolina History
• The Tombstone Transcription Project
• USGenWeb Project South Carolina Archives
• USGenWeb Project's South Carolina Home Page
• War of 1812 South Carolina
• South Carolina Ghost Towns
• Saving Graves South Carolina
• Saving Graves Chester County, South Carolina
• Saving Graves Lancaster County, South Carolina
• Saving Graves York County, South Carolina

• South Carolina Genealogical Organizations
• Aiken-Barnwell Genealogical Society
• Catawba Wateree Genealogical Society
• Orangeburgh German-Swiss Genealogical Society
• South Carolina Historical Society
• South Carolina Genealogical Society
• The Piedmont Historical Society Great resource for people researching Upper South Carolina genealogy & history
• Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGS

• If you have a good URL for Charleston County
• The Citadel
• Coastal Carolina University
• Coker College
• College of Charleston
• Francis Marion University
• Furman University
• Presbyterian College
• South Carolina Department of Archives & History
• South Carolina State Library
• South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina
• Winthrop University

• Old Santee Canal State Historic Site
• Early NC-TN-SC Records
• If you have a good URL for Ye Old Low Country Online Book Store sponsored by Amazon.com
• Wade Hampton, 1876
• Olde English District Research Guide
• South Carolina AHGP Mail List