| South Carolina Statewide Online Genealogy Records
This chart shows links to statewide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county or town), go to Locating Online Databases.
Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local
family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Vital RecordsBirths
Marriages
- South Carolina Marriages, 1641-1965 Index only ($)
- South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799 Abstracts($)
- Supplement to South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1820 ($)
- South Carolina, Marriages, 1709-1913 Index only Incomplete.
- South Carolina, Newspaper Marriage Notices, 1732-1801 ($)
- South Carolina Marriages, 1800-1820 Abstracts ($)
- United States Marriages – South Carolina, 1843-1945 ($) index and images
- South Carolina Baptist Deaths and Marriages, 1866-87 ($)
- South Carolina, County Marriages, 1907-2002 ($) Index and images
Deaths
- Online South Carolina Death Indexes, Records and Obituaries, index
- South Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1816-1990, index.
- South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1968 Index and images ($)
- South Carolina Baptist Deaths and Marriages, 1866-1887 ($)
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1915-1943 Index and images. Also at MyHeritage, index and images ($)
- U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 ($)
- U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, incomplete, ($).
- South Carolina, Deaths, 1944-1955 Index only.
- South Carolina Death Index, 1950-1952 ($)
- United States Social Security Death Index
Archives and Libraries
African Americans
- African American Online Genealogy Records, list of nationwide databases
- South Carolina, Secretary of State, Slave Mortgage Records, 1734-1780, index.
- Black Slave Owners; Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860, e-book
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1790 South Carolina Census by County
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1800 South Carolina Census, by County/ District
- "Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1810 South Carolina Census, by family name
- Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census, index ($)
- South Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872, images/no index
- Upstate S.C. Black Heritage Researching
- Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware
- Low Country Africana: South Carolina Slaveholders, A-M, index, N-Z
- WPA Federal Writers' Project Materials on African American Life in South Carolina
- South Carolina's African American Confederate pensioners, 1923-1925, e-book
Biographies
Cemetery Records
Census
Compiled Genealogies
Court Records
Directories
History
Immigration Records
- United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records, list of nationwide databases
- The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700.... e-book
- Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, ($), index
- A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763-1773, ($), index/images
- Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772 Rev. William Martin and His Five Shiploads of Settlers, e-book
- Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829
- South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists, 1904-1942 — index and images
- South Carolina, Passenger Lists, 1906-1962, index and images, ($)
- South Carolina, Charleston U.S. Citizens Passenger Lists, 1919-1948, Images only.
- Florida and South Carolina, Airplane Arrival Manifests, 1944-1945 — images
Land
- Records of the Secretary of the Province and the Register of the Province of South Carolina, 1671-1675
- Warrants for Land in South Carolina 1672-1711, e-book
- Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1672-1679 Index and images ($)
- Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1680-1692 Index and images ($)
- Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1692-1711 Index and images ($)
- South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-1776, e-book
- South Carolina, Plats For State Land Grants 1784-1868 (index)
- Plats for State Land Grants 1784 - 1868, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, index
- Bureau of Land Management Land Patents
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Maps
Military Records General Records
Colonial Soldiers
Indian Wars, dates vary
Revolutionary War, 1774-1783
War of 1812, 1812-1815
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Civil War, 1861-1865
- U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases
- South Carolina, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865 Index and images.
- South Carolina, Confederate Home Records, 1909-1958, index and images, ($)
- South Carolina, Confederate Home Records, 1909-1958, index and images.
Spanish-American War, 1898
World War I, 1917-1918
World War II, 1941-1945
Korean War, 1950-1953
Vietnam War, 1964-1972
Naturalization
Newspapers
Obituaries
Periodicals
Probate Records
- South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980, ($), index and images, incomplete.
- South Carolina, Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977 Index and images.
- Records of the Secretary of the Province and the Register of the Province of South Carolina, 1671-1675
- South Carolina, Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964 Index and images.
- SC Dept. Archives and History Will Transcripts, 1782-1855 Index.
- South Carolina wills and other court records, e-book
- Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina, ($), index
- A genealogical collection of South Carolina wills and records. v.1, e-book
- South Carolina, Will Transcripts 1782-1866 at findmypast index
Tax Records
Voting Records
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