New books

A couple of new books have become available at the Palmetto Roots web site. One is a survey of the Lybrand and Gibson cemeteries in West Columbia, SC. The other one is Abstracts from the Columbia Register newspaper January 1878-December 1885. Both are by Mark Lynne. The Columbia Register abstracts compliments the John Glass book edited by Brent Holcomb. The Record of Deaths covers the years 1859-1877. Most of the obits found in the Glass book can be found in the Columbia Register. I very excited about this book. Indexes are wonderful.

The Columbia Chapter of the SC Genealogical Society has also published a new volume of their cemetery surveys for Lower Richland. I don't see it on their web site but I know it is out: http://www.columbia.scgen.org/

Digitized newspapers

This afternoon I answered a patron request for more information about Beaufort newspapers online. Of course, I directed her to this blog where there is a link to the Beaufort Public Libray's index to the Beaufort Gazette and the index to the Press and Standard, Walterboro's paper. However, I recently discovered that the University of South Carolina has digitized a Port Royal newspaper called the New South. These 67 issues cover the years March 1862-1866 and are searchable.

With more and more newspapers being digitized it is good to remember to check the digital collections at local universities. These are usually the institutions that currently are conducting the majority of digitization projects. Take the time to check the university in your area to see what projects they are working on.

I will provide the link to the New South newspaper on my lists of links.