The South Carolina State Archives is available for online research at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. The South Carolina State Archives has online birth records, land records, maps, military records, and more.
Birth, Marriage, & Death Records
Birth Records
Residence Records
Maps
Maps, Photos, and Ephemera, 1900-1952
South Carolina Proprietary Counties, 1682
South Carolina Parishes of the Anglican Church
South Carolina Districts, 1769-1784
South Carolina Districts and Counties, 1785
South Carolina Districts and Counties, 1786-1790
South Carolina Districts, 1791-1799
South Carolina Districts and Counties, 1791-1799
South Carolina Districts, 1800-1814
South Carolina Districts, 1815-1867
South Carolina Counties, 1868-1870
South Carolina Counties, 1871-1877
South Carolina Counties, 1878-1907
South Carolina Counties, 1908-1915
South Carolina Counties, 1916-Present
Land Records
Plats for State Land Grants (1784-1868)
British and Private Records – Federal land grants for South Carolina War of 1812 military service, 1860
Abbeville County – Conveyance Book Indexes , 1872-1925
Aiken County – Conveyance Book Indexes , 1872-1951
Allendale County – Conveyance Book Indexes , 1919-1982
Anderson County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1828-1948
Bamberg County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1897-1919
Barnwell County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1785-1936
Beaufort County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1863-1926
Berkeley County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1884-1929
Cherokee County – Conveyance Book Indexes, 1897-1969
Lexington County – Plat Books, 1906-2013
State Records
Combined Index to Records Series, 1675-1929
National Register of Historic Places
Pension Records
Williamsburg County – Confederate pension rolls, 1919-1973
York County – Confederate pension applications, 1919-1929
York County – Confederate widows pension applications, 1919-1938
Wills & Probate
Daily Life Records
African American & Slavery
British and Private Records – searchable CD-ROM transcription of runaway slave advertisements in Charleston newspapers, 1766-1782
Court Records
Criminal Court Records (1769-1944)
Diaries/Journals
British and Private Records – Campbell family papers, 1860-1886
Government Records
British and Private Records – photograph, 1922, SC Association of Auditors and Treasurers
Abbeville County – Minutes of the Abbeville County Council, 2000-2015
Anderson County – Minutes of the Anderson County Council, 1977-2015
Bamberg County – Minutes of the Bamberg County Council, 2009-2015
Barnwell County – Minutes of the Barnwell County Council, 2010-2015
Berkeley County – Minutes of the Berkeley County Council, 2001-2009
Calhoun County – Minutes of the Calhoun County Council, 2011-2012
Charleston County – Minutes of the Charleston County Council, 2009-2015
Chesterfield County – Minutes of the Chesterfield County Council, 2007-2015
Clarendon County – Minutes of the Clarendon County Council, 2010-2015
Clarendon County – Briggs vs. Elliott, 1949-1950
Colleton County – Minutes of the Colleton County Council, 2012-2015
Darlington County – Minutes of the Darlington County Council, 2014-2015
Dillon County – Minutes of the Dillon County Council, 2011-2015
Florence County – Minutes of the Florence County Council, 2008-2015
Horry County – Minutes of the Horry County Council, 2004-2010
Jasper County – Minutes of the Jasper County Council, 2007-2015
Laurens County – Minutes of the Laurens County Council, 2008-2015
Lexington County – Minutes of the Lexington County Council, 2003-2015
Marion County – Minutes of the Marion County Council, 2013-2015
Marlboro County – Minutes of the Marlboro County Council, 2009-2015
Orangeburg County – Minutes of the Orangeburg County Council, 2010-2015
Pickens County – Minutes of the Pickens County Council, 2003-2015
Richland County – Minutes of the Richland County Council, 2000-2015
Spartanburg County – Minutes of the Spartanburg County Council, 1998-2015
Union County – Minutes of the Union County Council, 2006-2015
Cayce (S.C.) – Cayce City Council Minutes, 2005-2010
Columbia (S.C.) – The Columbia Plan: 2018, 2008
Legislative Papers (1782-1866)
Photographs
Forestry Commission, South Carolina – Civilian Conservation Corps files (photographs), ca. 1934-1942
Combined Index to Records Series, 1675-1929
Schools
Wil Lou Gray School (West Columbia, SC) – Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1957-2018
Women
Women, Commission on – Minutes of the Commission on Women, 2006-2009
Women, Commission on – Administrative, correspondence, and reference file, 2006-2009
Military Records
Revolutionary War
Navy, Commissioners of the – Clerk’s pay bill book, 1778-1779
US Civil War
Records of Confederate Veterans (1909-1973)
Williamsburg County – Confederate pension rolls, 1919-1973
York County – Confederate pension applications, 1919-1929
York County – Confederate widows pension applications, 1919-1938
Medal of Honor Recipients
Pickens County – Medal of Honor dedications for soldiers from Pickens County, 2015
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