Thursday, June 6, 2019

New resources and updates


Hi folks,

Transcribing SC resources has kept our department pretty busy lately.  We have been pushing to finish transcribing the SC 1868 Voter Registration census and we are nearly there.  Some wonderful volunteers stepped up at the last minute to help speed things along. Right now only Orangeburg and Charleston remain unfinished and they will be available in the next month. All other counties are transcribed and keyword searchable.

The 1917 SC birth certificates are finally up on the SC Electronic Records Archive (SCERA). Remember that SCERA is available on the South Carolina Archives site. It differs from the Online Records Index because the original files were obtained electronically.  The Online Record Index files were scanned from the primary documents.

For Richland County researchers we finished transcribing the P. H. Lachicotte ledger. This is a ledger of transactions from P. H. Lachicotte Company, jewelers located on Main Street, and it covers September 1883-September 1895.  Our hope is this resource will supplement the Columbia city directories that are so “gappy” for the period following Reconstruction. The ledger does list women and African Americans and lots of watches!!

Thank you all for keeping the statistics high on the Richland Library Digital Collection, Indexes of Local History and Genealogy page.  It is consistently in our top ten collections.  The high statistics help us justify the time we spend indexing and transcribing records.  BTW, the years 1879 and 1880 were recently added to the Richland County Treasurer’s Tax Duplicate Records index.

Keep searching!

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