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Brent Holcomb
The Southern Christian Advocate was the publication for the Methodist Conferences of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, for the period covered in this volume. It was published in Macon, Georgia…
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By: Brent Holcom, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2018, 198 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-212-0.
Fairfield was one of the counties formed from the Camden District in 1785. It is surrounded…
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By: Brent Holcom, Pub. 1982, Reprinted 2018, 152 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-298-8.
Marlboro county was created in 1785 and is located in the historic area know as the…
These lists of probates and deeds, known as memorialized records, cover the years 1814 to 1825, but the lists of deeds contain many instruments executed much earlier, some prior to…
It is very unusual for a record, such as these minutes of the county court for Laurens County, to surface after being lost for so many years. While this volume…
Abstracts typically include: source; full-names of all persons involved; amount paid; number of acres and location of property (in a few cases the property is a slave rather than land)…
The minutes begin with the entry of 20 August 1809, when the Lower Fairforest Baptist Church was established as an arm of Padgett’s Creek Baptist Church, which had been established…
his volume contains marriage and death notices from the three Baptist newspapers which were published in South Carolina following the Civil War: The South Carolina Baptist (1866-1868) published at Anderson…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1977, Reprinted 2023, 82 pages, Maps, Index, ISBN #0-89308-052-7.The author, Brent Holcomb, has abstracted three books that represent a guide to the intestate (and some testate)…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1978, Reprinted 2014, 236 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-150-7.
Since South Carolina did not officially keep vital records until 1911, it is extremely important to search through…
This book is been out-of-print shortly after its printing back in 1980. Don’t miss you chance to own it now. This mortality schedule gives the name, age, sex, state of…
Official passenger lists for the port of Charleston--be they Customs Passenger Lists or State Department Transcripts--exist only for the years 1820-1829. This superb new work, compiled by expert South Carolina…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2017, 330 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-175-2.
This volume contains abstracts of the county court minutes for an important up-country county. Spartanburg County…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1977, Reprinted 2015, 244 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-047-0
Tryon County was formed from Mecklenburg County in 1769. At one time Tryon County included all or part…
A revision and expansion of v. 1 (c1976) of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina deed abstracts, which was planned in 2 v.; v. 2 never published.
This volume is a continuation of the abstracts prepared under Clara Langley of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
This volume is a continuation of the abstracts prepared under Clara Langley of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub, 1978, Reprinted 2017, 120 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-050-0.
These are abstracts of Wills and all Estate Papers for the period 1770-1796. These include the…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2018, 88 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-189-2.
At is formation in 1734, Bladen encompassed everything west of the present county. Even though many…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1981, Reprinted 2014, 240 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-213-9.
Lancaster County was carved out of the Camden District in 1785. And from part of it, Kershaw county…
Due to South Carolina not officially keeping vital records until 1911, makes researching in old newspapers extremely important. Many times these may be the only remaining record of its type…
Newberry County was formed in 1785. Deeds show that early settlers of Newberry County included Quakers, German Protestant immigrants, Germans from Pennsylvania, Irish Protestant immigrants, and settlers from North Carolina.
The names of more people will appear in this court record than in any other body of county records. Lists of deeds and wills, road juries, civil suits, minor criminal…
The author’s goal in this volume is to provide information whereby any Bedenbaugh descendant can find his or her own lineage with a minimum of research of the direct lineage.
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1978, Reprinted 2023, 330 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-053-5.
The author, Brent Holcomb, has abstracted three books that represent a guide to the intestate (and some testate)…
By: Brent Holcomb, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2023, 160 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-149-3.
The three following volumes represent a guide to the intestate (and some testate) records of the…
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While the length and contents of these abstracts vary, most of them provide the name of the testator, date of the will, names and relationships of all heirs to the…
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By: Brent H. Holcomb, Pub. 1979, reprinted 2019, 766 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-111-6.
The Southern Christian Advocate was the publication of the Methodist Confrence of both South and…
York County was formed in 1785 as a county of Camden District. York obtained its own court of ordinary (or probate court) in 1787. The wills abstracted in this work…
By: Brent H. Holcomb, Pub. 1980, Reprinted 2019, 282 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-154-X.
The Southern Christian Advocate was the publication of the Methodist Confreence of both South and…
Prince George Winyah Parish was established in 1721 from St. James Santee Parish. Its registers include: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, communicants, and burials. The entries include slaves, Negroes, and free persons…
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Newspaper abstracts can be extremely helpful sources of genealogical data, especially where and when civil records were not kept with diligence. The Observer was a Presbyterian newspaper which published denominational…
One volume in a series of North Carolina marriage records compiled by Mr. Holcomb, it contains abstracts of all 3,946 marriage bonds issued in Johnston County from 1762 to 1868…
Bute County was formed from Granville County in 1764, and abolished in 1779 to form Warren and Franklin Counties. During Bute County’s brief existence there were 103 land grants issued…
Kershaw County was formed in 1791 from the counties of Fairfield, Lancaster and Richland. Therefore, prior to 1791, the county records of those counties should be researched for persons who…
Newspapers of Columbia, South Carolina, offered state-wide coverage of marriage and death notices - a treasure trove of genealogical data. Because Columbia was virtually destroyed by fire in 1865, complete…
Chester County was formed in 1785 as a county of Camden District. Prior to the border surveys of 1764 and 1772, the area was included in the North Carolina counties…
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