South Carolina Genealogy Online
Research and explore your South Carolina genealogy and family history online with these online South Carolina databases, indexes and digitized records collections - many of them free!
The Piedmont Historical Society provides transcriptions of a number of South Carolina records, primarily focused on the upstate counties including Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefiled, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union and York.More »
This free online index of historical records from the SC Archives includes will transcripts (1782-1855), plats for state land grants, Confederate pension applications and other items.More »
Greenville County, South Carolina, has posted an amazing collection of the county's historical records online in digital format, including deeds, wills, probate records and district court records. The records are in digital format only, but the indexes (when available) have also been digitized.More »
Historic photographs, broadsides (single page advertisements such as posters and fliers), family papers, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and historic newspapers from across the state of South Carolina are online as part of the University of South Carolina Libraries Digital Collections.More »
Browse digitized indexes of all Death Index log files from the South Carolina Department of Health's Division of Vital Records. Viewable only with Internet Explorer.More »
This free index to South Carolina death records from FamilySearch includes digitized images of the death records from 1915-1943. An index to South Carolina death records from 1944-1955 is in a separate database.More »
The online Archival Room has opened with several hundred digitized plats of Charleston area plantations prior to 1900, along with McCrady Plats and Gaillard Plats. Plans are to eventually digitize older deeds, mortgages and other documents and put them online as well (more recent deeds are currently earchable online through the Register of Deeds Office).More »
Richland County, which includes the state capital Columbia, offers online searching of marriage licenses filed from July 1911 through the present and estates filed from 1983 to the present.More »
Marriage records, obituaries, cemetery records, death certificates, bible records, wills, high school family class lists, land records, wills and other genealogical records are freely available online from the Horry County Historical SocietyMore »
1. Lowcountry Africana
Funded by The Magnolia Plantation Foundation of Magnolia Plantation and Gardens in Charleston, South Carolina, Lowcountry Africana offers a searchable database of primary historical documents plus other resources for researching the family history, culture and heritage of Gullah/Geechee descendants in low country Charleston, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida.More »2. The Piedmont Historical Society Records
The Piedmont Historical Society provides transcriptions of a number of South Carolina records, primarily focused on the upstate counties including Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Chester, Edgefiled, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, Union and York.More »
3. South Carolina Department of Archives & History Online Records
This free online index of historical records from the SC Archives includes will transcripts (1782-1855), plats for state land grants, Confederate pension applications and other items.More »
4. Greenville County Historical Records
Greenville County, South Carolina, has posted an amazing collection of the county's historical records online in digital format, including deeds, wills, probate records and district court records. The records are in digital format only, but the indexes (when available) have also been digitized.More »
5. South Caroliniana Library Digital Collections
Historic photographs, broadsides (single page advertisements such as posters and fliers), family papers, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and historic newspapers from across the state of South Carolina are online as part of the University of South Carolina Libraries Digital Collections.More »
6. South Carolina Death Indexes 1915-1957
Browse digitized indexes of all Death Index log files from the South Carolina Department of Health's Division of Vital Records. Viewable only with Internet Explorer.More »
7. South Carolina Deaths 1915-1955
This free index to South Carolina death records from FamilySearch includes digitized images of the death records from 1915-1943. An index to South Carolina death records from 1944-1955 is in a separate database.More »
8. Charleston County Archival Room
The online Archival Room has opened with several hundred digitized plats of Charleston area plantations prior to 1900, along with McCrady Plats and Gaillard Plats. Plans are to eventually digitize older deeds, mortgages and other documents and put them online as well (more recent deeds are currently earchable online through the Register of Deeds Office).More »
9. Richland County Online Search
Richland County, which includes the state capital Columbia, offers online searching of marriage licenses filed from July 1911 through the present and estates filed from 1983 to the present.More »
10. Horry County Historical Society Records
Marriage records, obituaries, cemetery records, death certificates, bible records, wills, high school family class lists, land records, wills and other genealogical records are freely available online from the Horry County Historical SocietyMore »
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