This
is a
new page and a work in progress. 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.
This
is a newly adopted site and is under development, so please be
patient
with me while I get information online!
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.
