Oct 4, 2014 | SC Ancestors
FamilySearch recently released more than 875,000 digital images of South Carolina county probate records. These new records, previously available only in county probate offices or on microfilm, may now be browsed online at FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org)....
Jan 2, 2014 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Toni Carrier no images were found This page contains many photo galleries (we didn’t want to leave anything out!). Please allow a few moments for the galleries to load. The gallery above has 130 pics from this year. Be sure to scroll back up after reading the...
Dec 27, 2013 | Freedmens Bureau, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
FamilySearch Has Digitized Freedmen’s Bureau Records for South Carolina Social networks are abuzz today with the happy news that FamilySearch has digitized all 106 rolls of the microfilm series Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau...
Dec 27, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
FamilySearch this week digitized all 106 rolls of the microfilm series Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910). This new collection of 118,737 images is one...
Jun 16, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Freedmen’s Bureau Lists of Requests for Transportation, Feb – Dec, 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M869, Reel 44, Target 2 Indexed by...
Jun 15, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Freedmen’s Bureau Lists of Requests for Transportation, Oct. 1, 1865-Dec. 31, 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M869, Reel 44, Target 2 Indexed by...
Jun 14, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Freedmen’s Bureau Lists of Requests for Transportation, Oct. 1, 1865-Dec. 31, 1866 Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 NARA Record Group 105 M869, Reel 44, Target 2 Indexed by...
Jun 13, 2013 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, SC Ancestors
The Juneteenth holiday, one of the oldest Emancipation Day celebrations in the United States, commemorates the events of June 18 and 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, took possession of the state and...
Mar 22, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
In this note interfiled with rations requests written to Captain F. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, J. Calhoun Cain states that Freedman James Jenkins formerly belonged to his father. In the note, dated 11 July 1867 and written from Pinopolis, SC, Cain states...
Mar 20, 2013 | Ancestors Page ~ Where the Ancestors Seek YOU!
This letter, dated 26 Aug 1867, was written by W.E. Stoney to Captain F.W. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, to request rations for Charles McBride and Philippy Cordes, two elders living at Stoney’s plantation in Berkeley, SC. Stoney states that Charles...
