The following genealogies have been added to www.southcarolinapioneers.com viz: Floyd of Virginia, Green Island, South Carolina and Georgia; Kirton of Marion County, begins ca 1722 in Ireland.

SOUTH CAROLINA REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSIONS available online to members of www.southcarolinapioneers.com. This collection includes images and abstracts.

Ballard, Thomas

Beck, Jeffrey

Bird, John (2)

Bone, George

Bone, Lewis

Bowen, Benjamin

Boyd, William

Burton, Richard

Cardoza, David N.

Franklin, John

Harrison, Reuben

Jordan, Daniel

Jordan, James

Norman, Richard

Smith, Alexander

Smith, Job

Smith, William

Snoddy, Samuel

Tinsley, James

Wade, David

Weddeman, Peter

Wilbanks, William

Wilson, Newman

Young, James

Index to Lost Generations Series
By Jeannette Holland AustinJOIN Pioneer News

Lost Generations: Emerging Court House Records

Fires and wars were the major culprit for destroying court house records. So why do certain books resurface? I was visiting Darien, Georgia during the 1960’s speaking to local families, when a lady came onto her porch with a ledge-style book in her hand. It was an old tax digest book from McIntosh County. The reason she had it? Her grandfather had been the clerk and was in the habit of bringing work home. This explanation is not unique, as the practice was wide-spread during the 19th century. Thank goodness! I contacted the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and asked them to send their film expert to her home. So now it is on microfilm at the Georgia State Archives. Also, I have seen court house books in antique shops. This is a place for the genealogist to keep the eye peeled. Incidentially, after the cold war ended in the Reagan years and the US was allowed to visit Germany and Poland, the church filmed records from those countries for the first time. I am a firm believer that more and more records will surface and when they do, it will be the genealogist who sees to preservation (and microfilming).Jeannette Holland Austin, Georgia Author
Georgia Pioneers

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NEW INFORMATION - Latest Additions to GA, NC, SC, KY, TN, VA Pioneer websites

Georgia Genealogy | Articles

Kentucky Genealogy | Articles

Folder Collection -

• Allison, William Henry of Mercer County
• Bacon, John Mosby
• Barnes, Joseph of Knox County
• Beattie, Lily Rogers S. of Louisville
• Benet, James Walker
• Berry of Woodford County, Pedigree Chart
• Boone, Daniel of Mason County
• Brashear, Richard L. of Bowling Green
• Bratcher, Oliver
• Brown of Woodford County, Pedigree Chart
• Brown, James F. or Warren County
• Brown, Preston of Lexington
• Bruce, Helm of Louisville
• BUllitt, Henry Massie
• Clay, William Rogers of Fayette County
• Cook, Minnie G. of Louisville
• Crace, Shadwick Wilson of Maguffin County
• Dixon Families
• Dorr, Kate Sturm McCall of Mt. Vernon
• DuPont, Thomas Coleman of Louisville
• Garrard, Joseph of Clay County
• Helm, Thomas Kennedy of Louisville
• Holding, James of Scott County
• Hoskins
• Hurst of Morgan County
• Kenton, Simon
• Kenton, Simon’s Indian Lineage
• Kidwell, Leonard of Madison County
• Lawson of Wolfe County
• Lockhart, John C. of Logan County
• Martin, Eliza C. of Oldham County
• Massie, Nathaniel of Mason County
• McLean, James B. of Elkton
• McDowell, Hervery of Cynthiania
• McDowell, William Adair of Louisville
• Mcdowell, William C. of Lexington
• Morgan of Owsley County
• Newcomb, Matilda Florence C.
• Rotan, Kate Sturm McCall of Mt. Vernon
• Sherrill, descendant of Adam
• Slusher, Jacob of Harlan County
• Snawder, Thomas
• Wade, William of Madison County
• Wicker of Montgomery County
• Wilkins of VA, KY, IL, MO

North Carolina Genealogy | Articles

Gedcom Files

• Camp of America
• Edmondson
• Lane of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama
• Lowrance/Lorentz
• McCall of Transylvania County, North Carolina
• Neaves of North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma
• Perkins of Rowan and Lincoln Counties
• Stokes, descendants of Christopher in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and North Carolina

South Carolina Genealogy |Articles

Gedcom Files

• Adair of York and Chester Counties, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, Ireland, Scotland, to ca 1530, 147,157 bytes
• Bird of Edgecombe County
• Bones of South Carolina and Georgia
• Evans of Anderson County
• Stegall of VA, Pickens County, SC; and Georgia, 17,054 bytes, 8 generations

Tennessee Genealogy | Articles

Folder Collection -

• Allen, George D. of Bedford County
• Baskerville, Charles R. of Covington
• Blair, Wiley of Loudon County
• Blair, John of Loudon County
• Bowen of McMinn County, Pedigree Chart
• Bullington of Putnam County, Pedigree Chart
• Burum, Peter G. of Knoxville
• Cagle of Blount and Sevier Counties
• Campbell of Washington and Rutherford Counties
• Cantrell of Warren County
• Carson of Benton County
• Chamblee
• Chandler of Gibson County, Pedigree Chart
• Cheairs, home of Maj. Nathaniel
• Cleveland, Oliver Cromwell
• Collier of Rhea County
• Corley of Smith and Gibson Counties, Pedigree Chart
• Cunningham of Hamilton County, Research File, 3 pp.
• Dallum-Toy, 46 pp.
• Davis, Jonathan of Loudon County
• Dawson of Cocke County, Pedigree Chart
• Dickson
• Driskill of Cocke County, Pedigree Chart
• Elam of Weakley County, Pedigree Chart
• Ellis of Cocke County, Pedigree Chart
• Fritz of Lowden
• Holland, William, born ca 1822 TN
• Johnston, James of Loudon County
• Key, Albert Lenoir of Loudon County
• Lenoir, Albert S.
• McAllister of Gibson County, Pedigree Chart
• Meadows of Bedford County, Pedigree Chart
• Niles, James Swanson
• Pickens of McMinn County, Pedigree Chart
• Prather, Benjamin Franklin of Loudon County
• Price, John Ewing of Lebanon
• Rawcom, Josiah of Maury County
• Rogers of Blount County
• Turner of Maury County, Pedigree Chart
• West of Putnam County, Pedigree Chart
• Winton, John of Loudon County
• Wyly, James of Loudon County

Virginia Genealogy | Articles

Gedcom Files -

• Beckham, Simon, descendants of
• Camp of America
• Eley of Nansemond County
• Hardy of England and Virginia
• Jones, Richard, descendants of
• Lyddall of England and Virginia
• Marshall
• Stegall, descendants of William from Virginia to Pickens County, South Carolina and Georgia, 17,054 bytes
• Stokes, Christopher, descendants of in Lunenburg Co., VA and NC
• Tarpley of Williamsburg
• Wynne

Genealogy Books Online | Latest Additions

Books Added - A History of the Moravian by Joseph Edmund Hutton
A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
A Sketch of the History of Oneonta by Dudley M. Campbell
American Prisoners of the Revolution By Danske Dandridge
American Merchant Ships and Sailors by WIllis J. Abbot
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 By Mary Frances Cusack
Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Judon’s Bay Company by Hudson Bay Company
Chesterfield’s Letters by Lord Chesterfield. Letters, Sentences and Maxims. Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, 1694-1773, had a fate generally misunderstood. Dr. Johnson, a poor scholar but in the prime of life, seems to have mistaken a delay in an interview, and to have abused his lordship very soundly ever afterward. To this misconception we owe one of the finest and manliest letters ever written. Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, the widow of the recipient of these letters, sold them, enhanced in value from the earl’s literary reputation, for 1,500 pounds! That was an immense sum in those days. Published 1894 in Philadelphia, 307 pp., indexed. A rare find indeed!
First Whiteman of the West: Daniel Boone
The Annual Monitor for 1851, or Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850
History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John 1066-1216
History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan
Hochelagans and Mohawks: A Link in Iroquois History by W. D. Lighthall
Kewus abd Ckark
Legends, Traditions and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of Tuscarora Indian by Elias Johnson
Pioneers of the Old South, A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings by Mary Johnson
The Days of Bruce: A Story from Scottish History, Vol. I by Grace Aguilar
The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth by Hilaire Belloc
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century by Francis Parkman
The Magna Carta By Unknown Author
The Manual of Heraldry. Unknown author. 5th Edition
The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley by James Otis The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life by Francis Parkman
Victoria. Queen and Empress by Robert C. V. Meyers

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Use Deed Descriptions to Their Best Advantage: Locating old homesites and nearby cemeteries lies in the legends of local county maps. But first, one must find the ancestor’s deed transactions in that county. Then write down the legal description of the property. The old land grants did not provide detail because the land was considered wild. However, as time went on legal descriptions in deeds took shape and told whose lands were adjacent, identified creeks, rivers, roads and ferries. This detail is highly important to the researcher. It is always preferred to obtain all deed transactions of the ancestor and his family members. Then, a comparison of the descriptions between those persons. This helps zero in on original land grants, the year granted, how tracts were divided and bequeathed to family members, etc. Deeds of Gift was the common method of parents passing land to children. Since each deed must have a consideration, the sum of money was usually quite small. A title search in the deed office is now indicated. That is a tracing of the property forward. You observe the name your ancestor sold the property to, then see who that person sold the property to, and so on forward to the present day. Unless these transactions went unrecorded, when you get to the present-day owner, the title search should provide the exact address as modern deed descriptions contain more detail as well as street addresses. Even if you do not have the exact street address, after acquiring all of the deed descriptions, it is time to visit the local county court house and view in the tax commissioner’s office the land district map. After zeroing in on this land district, you can use the legend of the local county map to locate the general vicinity old home place. Now the field trip. Visit local cemeteries, churches and old farmsteads in the general area. Be sure and write down all of your surnames from these
cemeteries as this information will be useful later on.

Visit the following blogs for great tips for genealogical research - www.georgiapioneers.com/wordpress   www.southcarolinapioneers.com/wordpress    www.northcarolinapioneers.com/wordpress     www.virginiapioneers.com/wordpress

New Additions to GeorgiaPioneers.com -

Index to Cherokee Co. Wills 1848-1921; Index to Cherokee Co. Inventories, Appraisers, Vouchers, Sales, Annual Returns 1848-1852; Index to Clay County Wills 1852-1922; Index to Clay County Inventories, Appraisements, Sales 1859-1873; asper Co. Wills (images) 1814-1857; Index to Jasper County Wills, Appraisements, Bills of Sale, Annual Returns 1797-1857; Jefferson Co. Wills 1777-1893 (abstracts); Index to Jefferson Co. Wills 1796-1887; Index to Jefferson Co. Annual Returns 1815-1827; Index to Jefferson Co. ; Deeds 1797-1799; Brooks Co. - Estate of John Groover (1857-1860); Jefferson Co. - LWT of Elizabeth Causey, 1832; LWT of Joseph M. Livingston, 1872; Estate of William Livingston, 1843; Wilkes Co. - Estate of John Favor (1818); Estate of John Favor (1850).

Gedcom Files Added to www.NorthCarolinaPioneers.com - you can view and/or download - Camp/Camps of America, begins 1559 in England (356,752 bytes); Lane of Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama.

Gedcom Files Added to www.SouthCarolinaPioneers.com - you can view and/or download - Adair of Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia; Camp/Camps of America, begins 1559 in England (356,752 bytes); Evans of DeKalb County and Anderson County, South Carolina.

Genealogy Books to Read Online at www.Genealogy-Books.com -  Bone Connections by Dorothy Holland Herring and Jeannette Holland Stucki (1970), 35 pp.; The Family Record of John Cooper 1778-1909 Arranged by Sarah Edna Cooper Holtzclaw (1909); Copeland Genealogy 1913, 900 years, begins in France, 21 pp.; Early History of the Daniel and Daniels Families in Europe and America by Henry Dudley Teeter (1920), England, Scotland, Massachusetts, 13 pp.; Ormsby with allied families of Abbe, Knowlton, Carpenter and Griswold, of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 22 pp.

The following bible records have been added to www.southcarolinapioneers.com

Rourk-Griffin of Orangeburg County; Joseph Berry Wade; William Watson

Leonardo Andrea Collection of South Carolina Bible Records

The Leonardo Andrea Collection is well known to genealogists. It has been microfilmed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which was contributed to them in 1974 by Miss Connie Andrea of Columbia, South Carolina. The following bible records are available to members of SouthCarolinaPioneers.com

Andress Bibles (Joseph, Alabama, Stephen and Jeremiah Andres, 4 pp.;

Bell, Lancelot from NC to Kershaw  County

Buffington, Joseph from PA to 96th district

Collins, John of Abbeville

Craig, James from Ireland to Charleston

Culpepper, Robert of Abbeville (includes Nordan family)

Dinkins, William of Craven-Sumter counties

Few, Benjamin F. of Greenville

Glenn, James from Virginia to York County

Gordon, Alexander Gilbert from Scotland to Marlboro County
Holland, Abraham of Laurens County

Jenkins, Rolley of Greenville
Keating, Edward of Goose Creek, Charleston

Prosser-Darrons.  William Prosser, Otey Prosser, John Darrons.

Richardson, Matthias of Pendleton District

Seawright, Andrew (estate of John Collins Bible)

Yarborough, Gilson of Laurens County

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Genealogists! SouthCarolinaPioneers.com has published online the following wills: The Last Will and Testament of Mathias Elmore dated 1766, Berkley Co., SC; LWT of Elizabeth Turner , 1813, Newberry County; and Edmund Waddill, LWT dated 1850, Greenville Co.

The following DAR applications are available to members of www.southcarolinapioneers.com

William Anderson of Chester Co., SC; Ann Hawks Hay (male), NY, SC; William Holland, MD, SC (multiple applicants); Jeremiah Jaggers, SC; William Johnson, NY/SC; Henry Jones, SC’ John Major, SC’ John McMichael, SC/GA; Lilliston Pardue, SC; Henry Robertson, SC; George Roddenbery of Barnwell District, SC; David Sadler, SC (to 1740); William Taylor, MD/SC (2 applicants).

The LWT of Robert Thorpe dated 1741 and Edward Kirkland dated 1770 of Granville Co., SC has been added to www.southcarolinapioneers.com

The family of Henry Robertson, Revolutionary War Soldier is available on www.southcarolinapioneers.com.  It includes a DAR application and his original last will and testament.