South Carolina Genealogical and Historical Societies

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• South Carolina Genealogical Society  The aims of the Society are to raise the standards of genealogical research and to promote the preservation of records of the Colony and State of South Carolina.
    
• Greenville County Historical Society  is the organization founded by the Records Committee and based upon the foundation of the Upper Carolina Historical Society. The Society has over 500 members and a permanent headquarters at 211 E. Washington St, Greenville, SC 29603.
    
• Charleston Chapter of the S.C.G.S.  now numbers nearly 210 members, the majority being from Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester Counties, South Carolina, but with members from about 20 other states.
    
• Chesterfield District Chapter, SCGS  publishes quarterly the Chesterfield District Chronicle. We hold regular monthly meetings the second Sunday of each month except July and December. Some of the the projects that we are involved in are: collecting church histories from all the denominations in our area and encouraging these churches to have their records microfilmed, adopting and cleaning abandoned cemeteries, and having memorial markers placed for our county's war dead.
    

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