South Carolina United Methodist Advocate

The South Carolina United Methodist Advocate is often a site I overlook when searching for 19th century obits. The database is maintained at Wofford. Their description is:

The Archives maintains an index of obituaries that have appeared in the conference newspaper, the Southern Christian Advocate, since its inception in 1837, and in its successor newspaper, the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate.

The link is included in the index list on the right.

Does anyone have any other South Carolina gen websites they would like to share?

Columbia's Doughboys: What was lost now is found.

Learn about some of Columbia’s WWI fallen soldiers including William Sinkler Manning, Governor Richard I. Manning’s son through articles selected from The State and New York Times.

This exhibit will open June 11 in the Local History Room of the Main Library. It is the first exhibit I have put together so I am very excited. I hope someone reading the blog will come to see it.

South Carolina State Library

The State Library (Senate and Bull) has approved a project that would provide an obituary portal for online indexing web sites in South Carolina. This will be one stop shopping for obituary seekers. We are certainly looking forward to it.

Family Chronicle June 2007

This issue has an article about "properly documenting the truth". The priciples would apply to any non-fiction work but is written for genealogist. The author, Janice Nickerson, also provides an better explanation for primary and secondary resources than I have seen. In fact, she encourages the reader not to use those terms anymore. It was interesting.