Can someone do a lookup from this CD for me?  I want to get an idea if my
surnames are on it before buying it.
Thanks,

Adrianne
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Genealogical Records:
Early South Carolina Settlers, 1600s-1800s

Index to Wills of Charleston County, South Carolina, 1671-1868
provided by the Charleston Free Library
Since the only probate court in South Carolina was located in Charleston
until 1782, it can be said that (with few exceptions) all wills recorded in
South Carolina prior to 1782 are covered by this index. For each of the
approximately 10,000 individuals referenced, you'll learn the page number
and volume of their original record.
Jury Lists of South Carolina, 1778-1779
by G.L.C. Hendrix and Morn M. Lindsay
Here you'll find a list of South Carolina jurors for 1778 and 1779. These
jury lists prove legal evidence of residence, property qualification, and
civil service during colonial and early statehood periods. Jurors were named
in the parish of their residence. Men paying at least five pounds tax the
previous year were named as Grand Jurors as well as Petit Jurors for their
parish or district. Those men paying a lesser tax were named as Petit Jurors
only.
Index to the 1800 Census of South Carolina
by Brent H. Holcomb
Referencing approximately 30,000 heads of households, this index is the most
accurate and exhaustive listing of early South Carolina residents available.
A map, expressly created for this publication, enables the researcher to
pinpoint the boundaries of the districts in which their ancestors lived.
South Carolina Naturalizations 1783-1850
by Brent H. Holcomb
Here you'll find abstracts of the records of approximately 7,500 persons who
were naturalized in the state of South Carolina between the years 1783 and
1850. Since the information comes from a great variety of sources (including
declarations of intent, petitions and actual citizenship certificates,
etc.), the information that you'll learn can vary. In general, however, some
or all of the following information is available: name; country of origin;
place of residence in the U.S.; occupation; date of arrival in the U.S., and
date of application or admission.
North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
by Brent H. Holcomb
The border between North and South Carolina was in dispute until 1772 and,
as a result, North Carolina issued more than 1,000 grants for land in an
area that is now South Carolina. Land granted in the North Carolina counties
of Bladen, Anson, Mecklenburg, and Tryon are the present-day South Carolina
counties of Marlboro, Chesterfield, Lancaster, York, Chester, Union,
Cherokee, Spartanburg, Greenville, Laurens, and Newberry. The records of
these North Carolina grants (plats and warrants for the most part) form the
basis of this work. For each land grant, you'll learn: name of the grantee;
file, entry or grant number; relevant book and page of the original record
books; location of the grant; names of owners of adjoining property; and
dates of the various instruments.
Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina
by Martha L. Houston
A standard reference work for South Carolina, all pre-1853 South Carolina
counties are covered except for the counties of Beaufort, Chesterfield,
Colleton, Georgetown, Lancaster, Lexington, and Orangeburg whose wills were
destroyed by fire and were not included in the original Work Projects
Administration transcripts from which this work derives. Testators are
listed with references to the volume and page numbers of the books in which
copies of their wills are recorded.
Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Charleston, 1820-1829
by Brent H. Holcomb
Official passenger lists for the Port of Charleston exist only for the years
1820-1829. Here, you'll find information on the several thousand people who
managed to slip into Charleston through that relatively narrow window of
time. Most of the immigrants were young men from Great Britain and Ireland
who were unskilled farmers and laborers. The lists are arranged in the order
in which they are found in the original and all names in the lists are
accessible by means of the name index at the back of the volume. The data in
each entry is arranged in tabular format and includes: name of vessel; name
of passenger; age; gender; date of arrival; occupation; place of origin; and
country which he intends to inhabit.
A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South
Carolina, 1763-1773
by Janie Revill
The 4,000 immigrants listed in this volume were Protestant refugees from
Europe who were encouraged to come to South Carolina by an act passed by the
General Assembly of the Colony on July 25, 1761, called the Bounty Act.
Arranged chronologically and taken verbatim from the original Council
Journals, 1763-1773, the information given in the certificates and petitions
for lands under the Bounty Act includes: date of certificate or petition;
location and acres granted; age; country of origin; and the name of the
vessel on which they arrived.
Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year
1790: South Carolina
United States Bureau of the Census
No other official record or group of records is as historically significant
as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked
the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day: the
enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population. Until
1850, only the names of heads of household were recorded in the census.
Following the head of household's name, you'll find information about their
entire household: number of free white males of sixteen years and upward;
number of free white males under sixteen years; number of free white
females; number of all other free persons (size of family); and the number
of slaves. This volume is arranged by county and (in some cases) by minor
subdivisions of counties, thus enabling the researcher to narrow his field
of research to a particular judicial district.
Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772
by Jean Stephenson
In an effort to trace her own family's arrival in the United States, the
author identifies nearly 500 Scotch-Irish families who settled in
pre-Revolutionary South Carolina. The Scotch-Irish migration to South
Carolina was prompted by the combination of increasing land rents in
Northern Ireland and the government of South Carolina's offer of free land
and inexpensive provisions to new settlers. Each settler was entitled to 100
acres of land for himself, 50 acres for his spouse, and an additional 50
acres for each child brought to South Carolina. In light of this, Covenanter
Presbyterian minister Reverend William Martin persuaded his parishioners to
leave Ulster for South Carolina. Here, the story of the Scotch-Irish
immigration is recounted by the author from the records of the South
Carolina "Council Journal," tax lists, passenger lists, church histories,
land records, and other sources housed at the South Carolina Department of
Archives and History. Grouped under the vessel upon which they traveled,
families are identified by the name of the household head, names of spouse
and children, number of acres surveyed, county, location of the nearest body
of water and the names of neighbors, and the source of the information. For
the reader's convenience, this book contains not only an index of the
persons and a separate subject index, but also a table of spelling variants.
Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1672-1711 (3 Volumes)
by A. S. Salley, Jr.
Published originally by the Historical Commission of South Carolina, this
three-volume set encompasses a number of the oldest and genealogically most
important records of colonial South Carolina. In colonial South Carolina, a
land warrant was an order issued by the governor or one of the proprietors
(usually to a surveyor) for the "laying out" of lands granted to an
individual. Each of the approximately 5,000 land warrants gives: name of the
warrantee; location of the parcel (whether by county, town, proximity to
body of water, etc.); size of the parcel; name(s) of wife and/or siblings;
date of the warrant; name of the surveyor; and names of signatories to the
document. Each warrant thus has the virtue of placing the possessor in South
Carolina at an early point and in a particular locale during the colonial
period.