AncestralHistory

07/06/2024

lol 😂

10/26/2023

True story!

10/13/2023

This is funny! Genealogy humor!

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06/26/2019

What a great find!

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06/26/2019

This will be very helpful to read old documents!

via David Morris‎/South Carolina Genealogy Network: Annabel Staats of Missouri Genealogy originally posted this. She states: "This was posted on an Illinois genealogical web-site as a help to decipher old handwriting . . . ."
She thought it might be helpful - I think it certainly could be. Notice the Century headings at the top. You can open the chart and then right click to save it for reference.

06/23/2019

The use of Plats is another helpful research tool.

June’s Research is all about Plats!

In the colonial period, to be granted land, a person had to bring a completed land survey to the Surveyor General’s office. These surveys were copied, and those copies filed as “duplicate plats” in Charleston. Each recorded plat may include names of the proposed grantees; acreage; boundaries; boundary markers; natural features like creeks, swamps, rivers, etc.; improvements, if any; the names of any surrounding landowners; and the names of the surveyors. These records can therefore be of interest to genealogists and historians today. We commonly refer to these as our “colonial plats” (S213184).

After the Revolutionary War, the state took over the land granting process, retaining a similar system of requiring a plat to be filed prior to receiving title to the land. Initially, the plats were recorded by the Surveyor General in Charleston (S213190). The South Carolina Constitution of 1790 required the surveyor general to maintain offices in both the new capital at Columbia and in Charleston. The Columbia series of state plats (S213192) begin with volume 36 in 1796.

Here’s the great news for researchers: All colonial AND state plats are indexed through our Online Records Index. Every name, place name, and geographic feature that appears on a plat is searchable online, at your convenience! The even better news is that each plat in the colonial plats series (S213184) is available to view as a digital image, too!

Below is a Colonial Plat for 450 acres of land laid out to Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion in 1768 in modern-day Charleston County. The plat describes the land as being “in Santee River Swamp.” It seems that even before his Revolutionary War heroics, Marion was drawn to the swamps! (S213184, vol 09, p 210, item 2)

Search both the Colonial and State plats by going to http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/ and selecting “plat” in the “Document types” search bar. For questions, contact the SCDAH at [email protected]

06/13/2019

So true!!!

06/06/2019

I can’t wait!!!

04/23/2019

Great information!

The Library of Congress' website is full of fantastic information for genealogists, just waiting for you to tap into

04/06/2019

Too funny!

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04/05/2019

Isn’t this the truth!