Johnny Andrews from the Old Darlington Chapter of the SCGS will talk with us about "Using State Records to Bypass Burned Counties." Numerous counties in South Carolina have lost records because of fires or other catastrophes, and Johnny will highlight the availability of other records that can help researchers work around these losses. This will […]

Presentation is to be announced. We expect this will be an in-person meeting at the Masonic Center. Guests are always welcome, so please CONTACT US if you are not yet a chapter member and want to participate via Zoom.

Chapter member Pat Kruger will be speaking at this month’s meeting. Her program 'Too Crazy to be True? Separating Fact from Fiction' will discuss ways to consider and research 'crazy' family stories; The legends passed through the family that might be true, or not. Did your immigrant jump ship? Did an uncle really invent the […]

Our speaker this month, Leigh Jones Handal, will present "Lost Charleston." Leah is a native South Carolinian and an avid student of Lowcountry history. Leah is a graduate of the College of Charleston with an MA degree in journalism from USC. She's a licensed city tour guide (25+ years) and owns her own tour company, […]

Our presenter this month will be Chapter member Charlie Black who will provide an update of several recent enhancements made to the FamilySearch Full-Text Search tool. If you aren't familiar with Full Text, FamilySearch is utilizing A.I. technology to create transcripts of documents which can then be searched by keywords, names, places and other parameters. […]

Our presentation for the October meeting -- "Working with DNA - a Case Study" -- will be given by Charity Rouse, Director of Local History for the Spartanburg County Public Libraries. She has worked at the Spartanburg Library since 2014 and is a member of the Delegate Council of the National Genealogy Society and the […]

Our November presentation, "Unknown Keys to Help Unlock Genealogy Mystery" by Karen Prewitt will give some lessons learned for dealing with of those inevitable brick walls in genealogy research, and will share some little-known facts that could make a difference in your research. Karen moved to Charleston in 1981 after four years spent in Europe, […]

December is our annual “Show and Tell” holidays get-together. We invite chapter members to talk about genealogy-related "news" from the year. Come join us and learn a bit more about what's been happening with our members. If you would like to present at this meeting, please contact Melanie Zimmerman (melanieszimmerman "at" gmail.com).

OurJanuary presentation by Paul Porwoll will be about the old St Andrews Parish church in the West Ashley area of Charleston which dates from the early 1700s. The meeting will be accessible via Zoom. Guests are always welcome in person or via Zoom, so please CONTACT US if you are not yet a chapter member […]

Our March meeting will be a round table of research problems rather than a specific topic presentation. Members who have a genealogical brick wall or research problem are submitting well-defined genealogical background information before the meeting and we will choose three or four to discuss during the meeting to try to help the researcher break […]