My genealogy search has lead me again to south carolina cananyone tell me what k

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My genealogy search has lead me again to south carolina cananyone tell me what kind of people came in 1700s?

it seems all my family came to america during the 1700 or 1800s but all into south carolina?...i dont know why they all went there, i want to know what nationality and religion they were and maybe some tips on how to track them back to their different european countries???..help i have been stuck for months. its driving me crazy!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It's easy to tell you where their ships sailed from and to, but it won't tell you the stories of the individuals. There isn't any way to give you a detailed answer with the info you've given. But I can tell you how they got to South Carolina.

Charleston was a major colonial port. Ships from Amsterdam, Le Havre, Marseilles, Southampton, Ireland and many other British colonies (particularly in the Caribbean) routinely sailed into Charleston harbor. Someone leaving Europe for the American colonies would have an easy time being sold on the southern colonies over the cold northern colonies or Canada.

In addition, there may have been sailors in your heritage. They got tired of going to sea or were too sick to continue their voyage, so they got off in Charleston and started a new life.

If you want to find where they came from, start by looking at all known records of them, whether it's military service records (Revolution, 1812, Mexican-American, Civil War), census records, passenger lists, published biographies and local history books. I rarely have a hard time finding which country someone came from, the hard part is linking that country with a specific town and going to the next generation. For that you'll either need biographical info (such as DAR records or passages in local historical records), church records (not hard to figure out where Anabaptists came from, for instance), or someone else's good research to be out there for you to stumble across and verify.

What I can tell you is that you may have hit the wall because you're only looking on the internet for records. The internet's a wonderful tool, but it won't beat the South Carolina Archives and History Center. If you go to their website, the first thing you'll see is that they're against putting their records up on the internet. So the records you may want are still in the hallowed halls of the archives for now waiting for a person to go pull off the shelf and read in hard copy.

http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/research.ht...