Digital Primary and Secondary Sources: Family History and Genealogy

An easy method to track genealogical findings

A paid subscription of military records under the sponsorship of Ancestry.com.

From Family Tree Magazine a short list of definitions of genealogy terms.

The CDC maintains the information about where to find birth, marriage, and divorce (aka Vital Records) in each state.

Where to find vital records for the time period and state you are working in.

The largest volunteer run genealogy sites. Resources are organized at the county level. For South Carolina specific data, click here.

Searchable records of those who passed through Ellis Island.

Search immigrant information for those who came through Castle Garden.

Over 19,000 transcribed immigrant ship records to and from various places

Matches surnames that sound similar but have different spellings, used to find misspelled records

Largest grave site database, international but strongest records are in the United States

Searchable GPS cemetery data with an app, international

A site devoted to African American genealogy, to researching African Ancestry in the Americas in particular and to genealogical research and resources in general.

A growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor.

Includes extensive cemetery transcriptions for the Lowcountry Southeast.

Indexed by Lowcountry Africana, this site includes slave records from all over the state collected from South Carolina State Inventories and Bills of Sale.

Typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-1938, interviews of formerly enslaved people