Spartanburg County, South Carolina:
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Projects

• Spartanburg County SCGenWeb      (Source: Legacy USGenWeb)
• Spartanburg County Trails      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Spartanburg County, SCGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Spartanburg History  Roots and Recall

Adjacent counties

• Cherokee County, SC  to the east
• Greenville County, SC  to the west
• Laurens County, SC  to the south
• Polk County, NC  to the north
• Rutherford County, NC  to the northeast
• Union County, SC  to the southeast

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• History of Spartanburg County  Embracing an account of many important events, and biographical sketches of statesmen, divines, and other public men, and the names of many others worthy of record in the history of their county     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of Spartanburg County  1900     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Spartanburg Co, South Carolina, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Spartanburg County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Genealogy  List of published Spartanburg County, South Carolina family histories     (Source: FamilySearch)

Blogs

• Preservation Trust of Spartanburg 

Cemeteries

• Billion Graves for Spartanburg County, South Carolina      (Source: Billion Graves)
• Cemeteries of Spartanburg County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Mt. Olive Baptist Cemetery      (Source: Tamara West Stevens' Genealogy)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)
• Spartanburg County  South Carolina Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Spartanburg County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Spartanburg County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Spartanburg County SC Cemetery GPS Project 
• Spartanburg County SC Cemetery GPS Project 

Census Records and Indexes (45)

Court and Legal Records (15)

Directories

• Spartanburg City Directories      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina City, Town, and Rural Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Online Historical Directories      (Source: Online Historical Directories)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Spartanburg County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lipscomb Plantation      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Spartanburg County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Spartanburg County     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

• Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina  includes Spartanburg County, 1787-1858     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• South Carolina Probate Records  Bound Volumes 1671-1977     (Source: FamilySearch)
• South Carolina Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980  includes Spartanburg County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Spartanburg County Wills      (Source: USGenWeb South Carolina Archives)
• Spartanburg County Wills Book      (Source: Strictly by Name)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Wills Records      (Source: SAMPUBCO)

Ethnic

• Spartanburg, South Carolina      (Source: Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life)

History (38)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• South Carolina Naturalization Records, 1868-1991  Spartanburg     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of 96 District links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Cyndi's List of South Carolina locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Cyndi's List of The Piedmont links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Spartanburg County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Spartanburg County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)
• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Genealogy Resources  SCIway

Land Records

• Ninety-Sixth District Land Plats      (Source: Strictly by Name)
• North Carolina Land Grants  in South Carolina     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Spartanburg County Deeds      (Source: USGenWeb South Carolina Archives)
• Spartanburg County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• The Kennedy Room of Local and South Carolina History, Cleveland Genealogy Department  Spartanburg County Public Libraries
• Library Directory for Spartanburg County, South Carolina      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Spartanburg County, South Carolina     (Source: Find My Past)
• South Carolina Archives Summary Guide  Spartanburg County
• Spartanburg County Data Collections      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Spartanburg South Carolina Family History Center      (Source: FamilySearch)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wofford College Special Collections 

Lookups

• Spartanburg County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• SC-OLD96 For anyone with a genealogical interest in "Old 96" which is an old South Carolina district that encompassed the present-day counties of Edgefield, Greenville, Newberry, Abbeville, Laurens, Union, Spartanburg, and part of Cherokee

  • SC-OLD96 Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

• SCSPARTA Spartanburg County genealogy

  • SCSPARTA Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (35)

Military Records and Histories

• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Spartanburgh District     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Spartanburgh County, South Carolina     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Military Index, Spartanburg County      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Spartanburg, SC  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Spartanburg County     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • Southern Claims Commission  Spartanburg County - Barred and Disallowed Claims     (Source: fold3 - 7 day free trial)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Spartanburg County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Miscellaneous Data

• Montani Publishing  Publishers of Appalachian Memoirs mid-20th century     ($)
• Spartanburg County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (16)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records (17)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (14)

School Records and Histories (14)

Societies

• Battle of Cowpens Chapter  Spartanburg     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• Kate Barry Chapter  Spartanburg     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• The Piedmont Historical Society 
• Preservation Trust of Spartanburg 
• Southern Appalachians Genealogical Association      (Source: Facebook)
• The Spartanburg County Historical Association 
• Spartanburg County Historical Association 
• Spartanburg County Historical Association      (Source: Facebook)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (240)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry

• Blackman Uhler 
• Building histories of Spartanburg County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Campobello Airport  Campobello, South Carolina     (Source: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Spartanburg County, South Carolina     (Source: Google Patents)
• A Short Pictorial History of the Tucapau Mill 
• Spartanburg County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Spartanburg County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Spartanburg County Plantations      (Source: South Carolina Plantations)

Vital Records

• 1918 Pandemic Flu Statistics and Records for South Carolina  Spartanburg County     (Source: Families of the 1918 Pandemic)
• CSI: Dixie  1583 coroners reports from six South Carolina counties for the years 1800-1900
• Spartanburg Co. Death Records 1950-1952      (Source: Tamara West Stevens' Genealogy)
• Spartanburg County Death and Obituary Indexes  Spartanburg County Public Libraries
• Spartanburg County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Spartanburg County, South Carolina     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850  Spartanburg County     (Source: FamilySearch)

Wiki

• Spartanburg County, South Carolina Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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