Someone recently asked me to post information on getting some records from
the SC Dept. of Archives, especially to help the newcomers to genealogy.
Here goes.

http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/mailpol.htm

Click on the above and it will take you to the page you need to email the
Archives.  Ask them for the cost of  printing out the GRANTEE-GRANTOR and
reverse (grantor-grantee) index for Deeds for whatever county you are
working on.  You can ask for the whole thing or just the date range you are
interested in.  They will compute the cost and email you back.  They have
marriage bonds , wills, etc. on film as well.

I think they may have a rule about asking for no more than one Surname (or
maybe two at a time).  Check on this.  (Example:  I would ask for the years
of 1750-1850 for Bundy, Marlboro Co., SC)

What the Grantee-Grantor index will tell you is when your ancestor, and
other family members/locals  sharing the same name, were in a given county,
(years) and who they were "buying" land from, and sometimes where the land
was located.  It might also include a wife, who may have been on the deed
with her husband.

The Grantor-Grantee index will tell you when your ancestor was selling his
land (maybe getting ready to move?) and it also lists who was buying it.
(Maybe a son, son-in-law, or a neighbor).

EXAMPLE:
DATE;                GRANTEE     GIVEN NAME                    GRANTOR
BOOK           PAGE
5-16-1793          MACLEOD,    RODERICK                          TRISTRAM
THOMAS             AA                  313


For more information,  you can then go to that book and read the
particulars.

Hope this helps someone.  I've been doing this for twenty years, and this is
something I just learned last year.

Joanne Harley
NC
[email protected]



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