South Carolina Immigration records online may include passenger lists, passport records, settlement records, court cases, and more.
These records often provide names, places and dates of birth, ethnic background, date and port/station of arrival, the name of the ship or rail, place of residence, where they were educated, parents’ names, names of children, and more.
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South Carolina Immigration Records online at the federal level
US – United States Index to Alien Case Files, 1940-2003, index links to images, at FS
US – United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956, index, at FS
US – United States Border Crossings from Mexico to United States, 1903-1957, index, at FS
US – All U.S., Border Crossings from Mexico to U.S., 1895-1964, at Anc$
US – All U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, results, at Anc$
US – U.S., Border Crossings from Canada to U.S., 1895-1960, at Anc$
US – U.S., Index to Alien Arrivals at Canadian Atlantic and Pacific Seaports, 1904-1944, at Anc$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at MH$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, at Anc$
US – United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, index & images, at FS
US – Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914, at MH
US – Russians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Czechs Immigrating to America, at MH$
US – Germans Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, at MH$
US – Italians Immigrating to the United States, at MH$
US – Transatlantic Migration, North America to Britain and Ireland, 1858 – 1870, at MH$
US – Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500 – 1900, at MH$
US – Atlantic and Gulf Ports, Passenger List Card Index, 1820-1870, at MH$
US – Ellis Island and Other New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, at MH$
South Carolina Immigration Records online at the state level
South Carolina – South Carolina, Charleston U.S. Citizens Passenger Lists, 1919-1948, index & images, at FS
South Carolina – South Carolina, Georgetown, Passenger Lists, 1904-1942, index & images, at FS
South Carolina – Arizona settlers from the East, at FS
South Carolina – A compilation of the original lists of Protestant immigrants to South Carolina, 1763-1773, at FS
South Carolina – Immigrants from Great Britain to South Carolina, 1763-1773, at FS
South Carolina – South Carolina, Georgetown, passenger lists, 1904-1942, at FS
South Carolina – Index to passenger lists of vessels arriving at ports in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina, 1890-1924 : NARA RG85 publication T517, at FS
South Carolina – South Carolina, Georgetown, passenger lists, 1904-1942, at FS
South Carolina – Directory of Scots in the Carolinas at Anc$
South Carolina – A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina at Anc$
South Carolina – Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina at GB$
South Carolina – Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston at Anc$
South Carolina Immigration Records online at the county level
Abbeville County – History – The Huguenot Settlement in Abbeville County, at FS
Edgefield County – History – History of Edgefield County from the Earliest Settlements to 1897 : Biographical and Anecdotical, with Sketches of the Seminole War, Nullification, Secession, Reconstruction, Churches and Literature, Wtih Rolls of All the Companies from Edgefield in the War of Secession, War with Mexico and with the Seminole Indians, at FS
Lexington County – Genealogy – Miller, Lewis, King, Smith, Shealy–some Families of the Old Lexington District : Certain Lines of Descent from South Carolina Settlers, George Peter Miller, Charles Clark, David King, John W. Lewis, Henry Smith, Johann Caspar Mantz, Hans Amacher, Thomas Minnick, Hans Adam Summer, Johann Shely, and Some of Their Scions, at FS
Orangeburg County – History – The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina : from Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War, at FS
Williamsburg County – Emigration and Immigration – Register of Aliens, 1940, at FS
South Carolina Immigration Records online at the city level
Charleston – Emigration and Immigration – Florida and South Carolina, Airplane Arrival Manifests : COLLECTION RECORD, 1944-1945, at FS
Charleston – Emigration and Immigration – Florida and South Carolina, Passenger Manifests of Airplanes, 1944-1945, at FS
Charleston – Emigration and Immigration – South Carolina, Charleston U.S. Citizens Passenger Lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1919-1948, at FS
Charleston – Emigration and Immigration – South Carolina, Charleston U.S. Citizens Passenger Lists, 1919-1948, at FS
Charleston – Emigration and Immigration – Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, at Anc$
Georgetown – Emigration and Immigration – South Carolina, Georgetown, passenger lists, 1904-1942, at FS
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