If you are a "seasoned" Bamberg
County researcher and would like to share your tips
on SC
research,
please let me know! Others will
benefit from your
experience! Pat
Sabin.
I'm
Pat Sabin,
your new host
for the Bamberg County SCGenWeb.
Because of my
avid
interest in the history and genealogy of my
ancestors, I
host
a number of genealogy, history and vintage
postcard web sites, as well
as several mailing lists in different parts of the
country.
My
contribution
to the Bamberg
County SCGenWeb is in maintaining and coordinating
the web site (and
mailing
list), and I hope it will always be an evolving
and interesting place
to
visit. Because
I live near Atlanta, Georgia and have done
little actual research in
South
Carolina, I regret to say that I am not
able to answer personal
research
questions.
If
you have a
question about
Bamberg County County research that is not
answered on this site, I
recommend
that you search the archived list messages of
the Bamberg
County Genealogy Mailing List . You
may also consider subscribing to this very active
list, as there are
many
dedicated researchers who subscribe.
Where to
Start
On
This Site
If
you
are new to "lowcountry" South Carolina research,
you'll want to
review
the changes in South Carolina districts over the
last 250
years.
Bamberg County was formed from the old Barnwell
County in 1897, so all
older census and court records will be found in
Barnwell
County.
Here's a good map for the County
Formations at My South
Carolina at Genealogy.com which is very
helpful
in relating to old census records. Use your
BACK button to return
here from the SCGenWeb.
If
you are a new
visitor to this
site, you are welcome and encouraged to
explore! If you just want to get to the
"bottom line" you may want to start
here:
1.
Search the Bamberg
County SCGenWeb Site
Search. Note: this will only find
information housed on
this site at http://www.patsabin.com/bamberg/ ,
including the archived
queries, transcribed documents, cemetery
transcriptions, surname
registry,
etc. Any data linked from the Bamberg
County SCGenWeb but
housed
on a town site or personal genealogy page will not
be included in the
search.
It takes approximately a week for the site search to
pick up additions
of new material, but everything housed on this site
will be searched.
2.
Check the Bamberg County
SCGenWeb Look-Up
list for a volunteer who may have research
material relevant to
your
genealogy search.
3.
Search the Bamberg
County SCGenWeb Queries
on RootsWeb or GenForum to see if someone else is
researching the same
family. If not, be sure to post your query!
4. Browse through the
titles listed on the Research
page - there may be a linked web site that will be
of help.
It
includes links to transcribed documents housed on
this site as well as
off-site, including single name or family
association websites, many of
which have large databases.
LOCAL
RESEARCH
If you have a chance
to
visit South Carolina for a genealogy
field trip- Locations
with Web Sites include maps and directions
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Historical
Centers and Research
Libraries
South
Carolina
Historical Society
100 Meeting Street
Charleston, South
Carolina 29402
(843)723-3225
Fax: (843) 723-8584
info@schistory.org
Library Hours: 9:00
a.m. to 4:00
p.m. Mon-Fri
9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Sat.
South
Carolina
Department of Archives and History
8301 Parklane Road
Columbia, SC
29223
Tele: (803) 896-6100
Fax: (803)
896-6198
Monday through Friday
8:45 a.m. to
4:45 p.m.
South
Caroliniana
Library
Manuscripts Division
University of South
Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Tel: (803) 777-5183
Fax: (803) 777-5747
Charleston
County Public
Library's
South
Carolina
Room
68 Calhoun St.
Charleston, SC 29401
Monday-Thursday 9-9
Friday & Saturday
9-6
Sunday 2-5
Aiken-Bamberg-Barnwell-Edgefield
Regional
Library
314 Chesterfield Street, Southwest
Aiken, SC 29801-7171
(803) 642-7575
(803) 642-7574 (Fax)
Bamberg
County
Library
Railroad
Ave., P.O. Box
305
Bamberg, SC
29003
(803)
245-3022
(803)
245-2422 (Fax)
Aiken-Bamberg-Barnwell-Edgefield
Regional
Library
314 Chesterfield Street, Southwest
Aiken, SC 29801-7171
(803) 642-7575
(803) 642-7574 (Fax)
Barnwell County
Public
Library
617 Hagood Ave.
Barnwell, SC 29812
(803) 259-3612
(803) 259-7497 (Fax)
Dorchester
County
Library
506 North Parler
Avenue
St. George, SC
29477-2297
(843) 563-9189
(843) 563-7823 (Fax)
Mon-Thu
9:30AM
- 8:00PM
Friday
9:30AM
- 4:30PM
Saturday
9:30AM
- 5:00PM
Sunday
1:00PM
- 5:00PM
Colleton
County
Memorial Library
600
Hampton Street
Walterboro,
SC 29488-4098
(843)
549-5621
(843)
549-5122 (Fax)
Monday -
Thursday
9:30
a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday
9:30
a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday
9:30
a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Vital Records
for Bamberg
County
Records by Mail
Bamberg County Clerk
P.O. Box 150
Bamberg, South Carolina 29003
803.245.5128 fax:
803.245.5156
Barnwell
County
Courthouse
1609 Main
St.
Barnwell,
SC 29812
(803)
541-1130
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If you'd like to
experience
the places of your ancestors in
a more meaningful
way, you may want to stay in a historic Bed &
Breakfast Inn.
Here's a brief directory of lowcountry HISTORIC
BED & BREAKFAST
INNS
LDS
Family History
Centers - How
to Get Started
The
following was contributed by
fellow researcher,
Earl Colley, on another mailing list. It is
used here with Earl's
consent:
"Not
all
LDS Churches have Family
History Centers.
But the people at any LDS Church should be able to
tell you where to
find
the nearest Family History Center.
Another
possibility
is to go to the
LDS Web site
at www.familysearch.org
What
you
need to see is the Family
History Library
Catalog. At the Family History Centers
it can be seen on
microfiche or on their
computers.
I prefer the microfiche. Ask one of the Family
History Specialists to
show
you where the microfiche Family History Library
Catalog (FHLC) is
kept.
Or ask them to show you how to access the FHLC on
the computer. I am a
Family History Specialist at our local LDS FHC and I
cheerfully do this
for researchers over and over.
Let
me use
my own recent research as
an example.
I have an ancestor, Absalom Gilly, who is listed on
the 1840 and the
1850
census of Carter County, Tennessee. Now I want to
learn more about him.
So I
went
to the FHLC microfiche
drawer and looked
for the section for the United States. The whole
file is alphabetized,
so it is easy to search. In the U.S. part of the
file I looked for
Tennessee
(again, alphabetically). Then among the Tennessee
microfiche, I looked
for Carter County. Now I see subjects and/or place
names. I looked
under
"C" for Court Records. You would see Census, then
Church records, then
Court Records and then many other subjects further
down the alphabet.
Once
I
found the list of Court Records
for Carter
County, Tennessee I selected the date interval of
interest to me.
Opposite
the chosen date interval I found a 7 digit number.
If that number
begins
with 0, 1, or 2, what you want to see is a doll of
microfilm. If the 7
digit number begins with a 6, then you want to see a
set of microfiche.
Sometimes the number of a film roll will begin with
one or more zeros,
and for convenience the zeros are not copied, but
that does not happen
very often.
When
I
found the 7 digit number for
the microfilm
roll that reproduces the Carter County, Tennessee
Court records for the
1840's I used that information to fill out an order
form. I paid the
person
who was taking orders $3.25 and gave her the order.
She gave me the
carbon
copy of the order and sent my order (by computer
modem) to the main
library
at Salt Lake City. In a little more than 2 weeks the
film arrived at
the
FHC for my use there for about 4 weeks. If I need
more time to search
the
film I can pay an additional fee to extend the time.
So
far, I
found that Absalom had been
ordered
to work on the road near his home, which told me the
neighborhood where
he lived. I also found that he had been charged with
selling whiskey to
a slave, but was let off by only paying the court
costs. I have now
ordered
the microfilm for the same courts for later dates,
and hope to learn
more
about the life of old Absalom.
Among
LDS
families, boys (and lately
girls) just
out of high school offer 2 years of their life to
service to their
church.
They get no money for that and must pay their own
living expenses,
usually
with help from parents and relatives. One of the
tasks that may be
assigned
to them is to take a portable microfim camera to a
place where
historical
records are available, and copy those records on
film. I think there
are
now a little over 2 million of those rolls of film
which have been made
and are filed at Salt Lake City for loan to the
Family History Centers
all over the world. No local Family History Center
would be able to
store
more than a very small portion of these films. They
usually keep just a
few of the films that are frequently used.
I
have
helped hundreds of people
access these
records. Not every attempt is a success, but most
people are happy with
their results and find this method more efficient
than travelling long
distances to visit Court Houses, Church Archives,
State Archives,
National
Archives, etc.
I
can never
give enough thanks to the
people who
have made this information available to me, but I
try to do so by
giving
my time to help them help others."
Lowcountry
South Carolina
Family
History Centers
Charleston South Carolina
1519
Sam Rittenberg Blvd
Charleston,
Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Phone:
843-766-6017
Hours:
T-Th 10am-9pm; F-Sat 10am-2pm
Moncks Corner South Carolina
319
West Main St
Moncks
Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United
States
Phone:
843-761-8671
Hours:
W-Th 6-9pm; Sat 10am-2pm.
Orangeburg South Carolina
1740
Broughton Street NE
Orangeburg,
Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States
Hours:
T 10am-7pm; Sun 2-6pm.
