Old Darlington District Genealogy 
Chapter of The South Carolina 
Genealogical Society

Hartsville Genealogical Research Library
114 South Fourth Street
(mailing address P.O. Box 175)
Hartsville, SC 29551-0175

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The Old Darlington District Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society invites you to visit our research library located at 114 South Fourth Street, Hartsville, SC (Old Train Depot). The train depot was built in 1907.  Our mission is to collect, preserve, and make available the genealogical and historical heritage of the Old Darlington District of South Carolina. The Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGC has members is 32 states and has been visited by people from 39 states. View map of members and visitors home state map.

The Hartsville Genealogical Research Library has a large genealogical collection of books, newsletters, maps from all across South & North Carolina and the SE USA. We have many published Colonial, State and County records, cemetery surveys from various SC counties, published collections of primary records, etc. These collections continue to expand.

Chesterfield County, SC is a “burned county” therefore research in this county is very difficult. Our library is the home of two very important genealogical collections: the Doris G. Gandy Chesterfield Surname Collection and the Marie G. Wiggins Chesterfield Genealogical Collection. Both collections are the result of decades of research into hundreds of Chesterfield County families by these two talented researchers. Copies of numerous Chesterfield County Equity cases are also available.

Also, you can find an entire collection of the N.C. Genealogical Society Journal plus many books, newsletters, microfilm and microfiche to help you in your North Carolina Research.

The Hartsville Genealogical Research Library has a great selection of genealogical materials from a majority of the fifty states with concentrations in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Texas, and Virginia.

The following genealogical collections are available:
  1. Shirley T. Burford – Various States with a concentration of S.C. & N.C. materials
  2.  Carrie Lee Kalber – Beaufort County, SC – Erwin, Lawton, and Allied Families
  3.  Edwin Lavin Large, Jr. – Large, Hendrix, Reynolds and Allied Families
  4.  Edwin Lavin Large, Jr. – Large Photograph Collection
  5.  Jill King Lyles – Welsh Neck Baptist Association, 1730’s – 1990’s
  6.  Daniel Moses – African American Photograph Collection
  7.  John Carroll Skinner – All areas of South Carolina
  8.  Carson Steen – Hartsville Oral History Collection

Other resources that are available to the researchers are:
  1.   Published Family Genealogies
  2.   Family Surname Newsletters
  3.   Map Collection from all across the United States
  4.   Photograph Collection
  5.   Darlington District Cemetery Surveys
  6.   Chesterfield District Cemetery Surveys
  7.    E. M. Floyd, Jr. Law Library
  8.   Microfilm Collection:
                  1790 - 1920 SC Census – all Pee Dee area Counties
                  1790 – 1840 All other SC Counties
                  Wide Variety of Pee Dee Area Newspapers
            Cheraw District, SC, Decree Book, Cheraw Equity District 1806-1849
                  Darlington County Probate Records, 1806 – 1900
                  Darlington County Deeds & Indices, 1806 – 1900
             Darlington County Equity Records, 1806 – 1869
                  Florence County Coroner’s Inquisitions, 1889 – 1915                                                                                  Freemen's Bureau Records: Darlington, Cheraw, & Marion
            Marlboro County- Deeds-  1786-1808
             Marlboro County- Minutes of Common Pleas, & General Sessions Court,
                  1785-1808       
             Marlboro County- Court of Equity, 1850-1867
             Quaker Records

    9.   Microfiche Collection:
                  SC Death Certificate Index 1915 - 1949
                  SC Historical Magazine 1900 – Present
                  WPA SC Tombstone Inscriptions
                  Transactions of The Huguenot Society of SC 1893 – Present
                  1790 Census – all available states
                  NC Bride & Groom Marriage Index, Early to 1825
                  Michigan Pioneer & Historical Collections  

            Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666
                  Virginia Marriages-  Early – 1800

   10.   CD Rom Collection:
             Official Records of the War of the Rebellion; A Compilation of the Official Records
                  of  the Union and Confederate Armies.
             Freedman’s Bank Records.
             Ancestry.com-   South Carolina Records and Reference.
             Family Tree Maker: 100’s of books on CD ROM including a wide variety of books
                  relating to PA, MD, & VA.
                  CD World Family Tree, Volumes 43 - 47. 
                  Family Tree Maker Family Archives CDs 
                  Haversack Chronicles, Volumes I and II.

The Library has available for purchase one of the widest selection of genealogical books pertaining to Darlington and Chesterfield Counties. All books are reasonably priced and many are by local authors.  The Library currently has 139 publications available for purchase.

 In keeping with our mission, the Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGS has published over 20 books and publications.  These include:  Darlington District, SC Cemetery Survey Volumes I – V; Mount Hope Cemetery Florence, SC: List of Burials; The Union Dead of the Florence Stockade; Death and Marriage Notices from the Darlington News, 1890 – 1895; Death and Marriage Notices from 19^th Century Florence, SC Newspapers; Genealogical Abstracts from the Darlington Herald, 1890 – 1894; Genealogical Abstracts from the Darlington Flag, 1851 – 1861; Births, Deaths, & Marriages from Timmonsville, SC Newspapers Late 19^th & 20^th Centuries; Florence, SC Birth & Death Registrations 1895 – 1906; History of Gum Branch Baptist Church 1789 – 1989; Descendants of Ephraim & Elizabeth Hendrix, 1770 – 1990; Descendants of David & Martha Large; Descendants of William & Mary Reynolds; and 3 indices to our newsletter, the Darlington Flag.

We are a nonprofit organization and staffed by volunteers. We would appreciate you sharing with us any old records (published genealogies, family sheets, lineage charts, wills, obituaries, deeds, land plats, photos, family Bibles, etc.) you may have pertaining to your family that would help our patrons in their research. We appreciate any help that you can give us, either by donating or let us copy them for our files. 

Our Federal ID Number is 23-7348141

We welcome you to visit and use our Research Library. Our staff will be glad to help you. Our hours of operation are: 

Saturday -  10 a.m. -  3p.m.

Sunday - 2 p.m. -  5 p.m.              

Monday - 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. 

Please see Contact page for additional information on closings, meeting and more.

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 175, Hartsville, SC 29551-0175
Location Address: 114 South Fourth Street
Telephone: (843) 857-0300

Old Darlington District Chapter, SCGS
Officers 2008 - 2009

JOIN THE OLD DARLINGTON DISTRICT
GENEALOGY SOCIETY

Send in your application and membership fee now to join The Old Darlington District 
Chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society. In return you will receive 4 issues 
of the "Darlington Flag," our quarterly 40 page newsletter, and information about our various publications, etc. The Flag is filled with data (with documented sources) and 
with queries from all over the world. If you wish to become part of our genealogical 
chapter and receive one of the most informative newsletters published, please see
Membership Information to join. If you would like to submit an article of interest in the 
Old Darlington District to be published in the Darlington Flag and/or on this Web Site..
e-mail information to the Editor. or Web Site Manager your email will be forwarded to the appropriate Officer or Committee Member.

If your research does not include the Old Darlington District, please consider joining a genealogical society that includes your town/county of interest.

CALL US AT (843) 857-0300 either during operational hours or leave a message. Coming 
to Hartsville for a visit? Need an answer to your research question? Need to know our schedule? Want to join right away? Give us a call. If you call when the library is closed, 
you will hear a recorded message, feel free to leave us a message If you wish to receive information on our chapter and how to join, please leave your name and mailing address including your zip code. We look forward to hearing from our membership.

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