Genealogical and Historical Reference Materials in the Lancaster County Library Caroliniana Room

Genealogical and Historical Reference Materials
located in the Caroliniana Room

MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
The Perry Belle Bennett Hough Collection The Viola Caston Floyd Collection The Hazel Parker Jones Collection
These collections are indexed compilations of clippings, photos and research notes on Lancaster County families and local history topics. The files may be used with staff assistance.
MICROFILM RESOURCES
The Lancaster News: 1854-1899 (sporadic issues) 1900 to date
United States Census Records: 1790-1930 Lancaster County and other South Carolina Counties (Includes a few census records for Piedmont North Carolina counties)
The Kershaw News-Era: 1949-1987
Conveyance Records: 1762-1922
Lancaster County Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.): 1935
Lancaster District/Court of Equity Records: 1822-1869
Lancaster District/County Commissioner's Reports: 1830-1896
Lancaster District/County Commissioner's Plat Books: 1829-1882
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL PERIODICALS IN THE CAROLINIANA ROOM
Confederate Veteran Magazine: 1893-1932 (Three volume index included)
War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: published by the National Historical Society of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 130 volumes with index
Sandlapper Magazine: 1968 to present
Images: published by the South Carolina State Museum
South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research: 1973 to present
The Bulletin of the Chester County, SC., Genealogical Society: 1978 to present
Carologue: 1985 to present
Pee Dee Magazine: 1993 to present
Southern Partisan: 1992 to present
Catawba/Wateree/Messenger: 1991-present (Published by the Catawba/Watereee Genealogical Society of SC, which includes Lancaster and Kershaw counties.)
Lancaster City Directories dating to the 1950's (Do not have all chronological years)
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine: 1941 to present
South Carolina Historical Magazine: 1981 to present
South Carolina Magazine: 1948-1977
South Carolina Wildlife Magazine: 1976 to present
United Daughters of the Confederacy Magazine: 1945-1982
South Carolina Legislative Manuals: 1934 to present
BOOK COLLECTION IN THE CAROLINIANA ROOM
All resources that have a "C" in the call number or on the spine of the book are located in the Caroliniana Room. Materials that have a "R" as well as the "C" are "Reference" materials and cannot be checked out from the library
C000	Reference works
C100	Philosophy
C200	Religion
C300	Social sciences: law, education, customs, everyday life
C500	Basic sciences
C600	Applied sciences
C700	The Arts
C800	Literature
C900	Geography, biography and history
C900-919	South Carolina and Lancaster County geographical history
C920	Collective biographies
C929.1	Genealogical "how-to" reference materials
C929.2	Family genealogy/history books (eg. Funderburk, Harper, Cauthen)
C929.3	Reference books containing will abstracts, deeds, marriage records, tax records, ship passenger lists, immigration records, D.A.R. records, probate records, U.S. Census records (Indexes for 1790-1880)
C929.5	Cemetery Data Records
C940	World War I and World War II records for South Carolina
C973	American Revolutionary War Records
C973.7-975	American Civil War Records
C975.7	South Carolina history books, including county histories such as Lancaster, Kershaw, Greenville, etc.
CB	Biographies of notable Lancasterians and South Carolinians such as Andrew Jackson, Charles Duke, J. Marion Sims, John C. Calhoun, Elliot White Springs, etc.
Lancaster County Library's Rare Book Collection: located in the glass-door cabinet. (In-house use only. Ask for assistance.)

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