The South Carolina Geneology Society Workshop took place at the State Archives. Here are some pics of it. The big document that one of the staff is holding up for me is the original of the Ordinance of Cessasion of the Confederate States of America (signed for South Carolina by J.S.Sims). The room the original […]
The internet at the Marriot in Columbia was not working this morning. Day Two at the workshop was marvellous. I took in a seminar on reading colonial and early statehood land plats. Exciting! Then I skipped the rest of the seminars and used the time to research and again, goldmines. I’ve got some pretty good […]
Learned a lot about how archives are stored here in Columbia today. The workshop is being held right at the South Carolina Archives and History Centre. There was a presentation by Senator McDowell of SC on the restoration of the Hunley. The Hunley was the first submarine ever. It was a Civil War (!) underwater ship […]
We visited many Revolutionary War period spots in the area and several remote gravesites. My feet have chigger bites but I only found one tick and it was before it could bite. Lucky I think. And no snakes. Whew. There is more to post but the South Carolina Geneologists Society workshop begins in 40 minutes so […]
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