Storbeck's

South Carolina Genealogy Books

North And South Carolina Marriage Records: From The Earliest Colonial Days To The Civil War by William Montgomery Clemens. 295 pp., cloth. 1995. Includes 7,500 marriages giving groom's name, maiden name of bride, and date and place of marriage. UNC004       $25.00

South Carolina Genealogical Research by Dr. George K. Schweitzer. 192 pp., paper. 1993. 1,107 sources for tracing your South Carolina ancestor along with detailed instructions. USC001       $12.00

South Carolina Marriages 1688-1799 by Brent H. Holcomb. 349 pp., index, cloth. (1980) 1995. Drawing on virtually all extant sources, Mr. Holcomb has compiled a list of some 6,500 marriages which bear reference to approximately 15,000 persons. Since official South Carolina marriage records are extremely scarce, Mr. Holcomb labored valiantly to extract records of marriage from parish registers, as well as Quaker meeting records, marriage settlements, court records, bonds and licenses, and a variety of other sources. The work is arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and brides and others mentioned in the records are conveniently located in the index. Each entry gives the names of the bride and groom, the date of the marriage, and the sources of the record. USC003       $25.00

South Carolina Marriages 1800-1820 by Brent H. Holcomb. 171 pp., index, cloth. (1981) 1995. A follow-up to South Carolina Marriages, 1688-1799 above, this second volume of marriage records extends the period of coverage through the year 1820. Like the fist volume it is based on a scattered and miscellaneous group of source records. Until now these early records have been accessible only to the experts. Thanks to the meticulous researches of Mr. Brent Holcomb, however, they are now available to everyone. Indeeed, drawing on more than thirty separate sources, Mr. Holcomb has wrested from obscurity some 2,000 records of marriage for the 1800-1820 period, each record carefully abstracted, documented, and indexed. USC004       $20.00