Jun 14, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: South Carolina, Secretary of State, Records Deposited with the Secretary. Abstracts of Voter Registrations Reported to the Military Government, 1868. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Record Group 213000, Series No. S 213103 Indexed by Alana...
Jun 14, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: South Carolina, Secretary of State, Records Deposited with the Secretary. Abstracts of Voter Registrations Reported to the Military Government, 1868. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Record Group 213000, Series No. S 213103 Indexed by Alana...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: South Carolina, Secretary of State, Records Deposited with the Secretary. Abstracts of Voter Registrations Reported to the Military Government, 1868. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Record Group 213000, Series No. S 213103 Indexed by Alana...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
Source: South Carolina, Secretary of State, Records Deposited with the Secretary. Abstracts of Voter Registrations Reported to the Military Government, 1868. South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Record Group 213000, Series No. S 213103 Indexed by Alana...
May 27, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
Source: Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910), Reel 23 Names of 166 USCT veterans who were paid bounties from 1866-1868 ~ Please...
Mar 26, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
The photographs in the Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress are an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. The photographs were taken by field agents for three...
Feb 28, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors, SC Records
So rarely does a record from Reconstruction actually connect freed people to a former slaveholder. When we find records like this we are so excited. We are very excited today, because we found another! This record is a part of the “Pre-Bureau” records for...
May 11, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
A resolution introduced by South Carolina Representative Andy Patrick calls for South Carolina to officially recognize the importance of Mitchelville, a Freedmen’s community built in 1862 on the Drayton family’s Fish Haul Plantation in Hilton Head, South...
Jan 10, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
The capture of Port Royal, South Carolina by Union forces in November 1861 set in motion a series of events which would lead to one of the largest social transformations in the history of the Lowcountry Southeast – the emancipation of...
Jan 10, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
This page is a portion of the Lowcountry Africana feature article Who Lived This History? The 33rd United States Colored Troops. Here, we present abstracts of records of the Freedmen's Savings and Trust (now digitized in the free...
