Data from 22,000 Georgetown County, SC Graves Collected

Painstaking attention to detail has led to recording of 22,109 tombstone inscriptions from all over Georgetown County, South Carolina. The Colonial Dames of America began this effort in 2001, and have gathered information on burials in 209 cemeteries from Murrells Inlet to Oceda, Georgetown, Andrews, Pee Dee to Sampit and Santee and points in between.

Even with so much work already done, the Dames, their husbands and friends know there's much more to be done. And they're asking for help to make sure the records are right.

You can read more in an article written by Tommy Howard and published in the Georgetown Times at http://www.gtowntimes.com/story/Data-from-22-000-county-graves-was-collected.

Comments

[Judith Reesor Hutchinson]

I grew up in Horry County, South Carolina, and frequently return there for visits (twice so far this year). It is adjacent to Georgetown County.

I am compiling a genealogy of the descendants of one of my Huguenot ancestors who settled in Charleston, South Carolina, in colonial days. After I read this article, I went to the Ancestry web site where the data are located and on looking at the first cemetery site I picked, I found seven people who fit into my genealogy -- two of whom I did not know existed.

Now I shall have to do some leg work on my next trip to SC. Fortunately, the furthest of the cemeteries from my home town is no more than an hour's drive.

And I have owned a hand-held GPS for several years.

[Thomas J. Jenkins,]

My family grew up in Britton's Neck and Berkeley County and fought in the RevWar. I'd be interested in who Judith's Huguenot ancestors were. I have a great number of them: DuBoses, Remberts, Marions,Mellettes,and DuPre's.