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This project is for those from South Carolina and/or their Counties. Please go to following link for more information.
This project is used to relate all units from South Carolina who served in the Confederate Army.
This project is just what it sounds like; a place to gather together any profiles available of Governors of South Carolina.
This project is to explore the Petticrew / Pettigrew families of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and South Carolina. Our family history is that the Pettigrew family of South Carolina are cousins to our Pennsylvania/Virginia/Ohio Petticrew family (also spelled Pettycrew in Virginia). Are these various families related? Also, are they Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Huguenot or all three? Before I...
This project is used to relate all units from South Carolina who served in the Union Army.
Confederate States: Alabama , Florida , Georgia , Indian Territory , Louisiana , Mississippi , North Carolina , South Carolina , Tennessee ,
Scope of Project We will create documented and accurate Geni Master Profiles for the 45 families of Huguenot settlers in the Carolinas during the Colonial American period (migrations: 1690-1730) and ensure their ancestral and descendent lines are unduplicated and well represented. Overview from: The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism|Protestant Reformed Church of France|R...
The Siege of Fort Motte was a military operation during the American Revolutionary War. A force of Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots led by General Francis Marion|Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion and Lt. Colonel Henry Lee III|"Light Horse" Harry Lee set out to capture the Kingdom of Great Britain|British post at Fort Motte, strategically located at the confluence of the Congaree River|Congaree a...
Traders in Some Southeast Indian Nations 1750 ~ 1754 from First People of Tennessee Traders to the Catawbas Robert Steel Robert Tool Mathew Toole Licensed Traders to the Cherokee from Carolina James Adair The Augusta Company James Baldridg Charles Banks William Bates James and Thomas Beamer Samuel Benn Robert Bunning John Butler Cornelius Daugherty ...
In June of 1864, the Confederate Army imprisoned five generals and forty-five Union Army officers as human shields against federal artillery in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to stop Union artillery from firing upon the city. In retaliation, United States Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered fifty captured Confederate officers, of similar ranks, to be taken to Mo...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire France French Provinces of the "Anc...
This project is about Sullivan's Island as the African-American Ellis Island Summary South Carolina's Lowcountry holds a major place of importance in African-American history for many reasons, but perhaps most importantly as a port of entry for people of African descent. According to several historians, anywhere from 40 to 60 percent of the Africans who were brought to America during the ...
This project is a sub-project of the American slave owners project, and a sister project to the Ball Family of South Carolina project. Summary Notables Timeline resources, references and links Slaves In The Family by Edward Ball
United States Senators from South Carolina List of United States Senators from South Carolina (from U.S. Senate web site--no links) List of United States Senators from South Carolina (with wikipedia links)
Links Naming Conventions
Herriott DNA 1. George Harriot was born Abt. 1825. He married Ann Muschett February 14, 1850 in St. Elizabeth (Source: B0056 St. Elizabeth Parish Register III & IV, 1835-1859, IV, p. 364 #3.). She was born Abt. 1825. More About George Harriot: Residence: 1850, St. Elizabeth More About Ann Muschett: Residence: 1850, St. Elizabeth Descendants of Robert Muschett Harriott 1. Rober...
Founded in the early 1760s by the charismatic preacher Joseph Nichols, the Nicholites shared many similarities with the Quakers, including dedication to nonviolence and antislavery and were one of the first religious groups in America to make the manumission of slaves a requirement of membership. As with Quaker meetings, the Nicholites’ meetings consisted of silent contemplation of the “Inner L...
The Badwell Cemetery, in McCormick County, South Carolina, had to be partially moved in the 1970's, by the Corps of Engineers, to make way for a lake, which is part of Sumter National Forest. In the 1990s the cemetery was severely vandalized, and had also naturally deteriorated. There had been a cast iron Grim Reaper, that was famous in the area, attached to the cemetery gate, in the mid 1800s,...