Welcome to the Union County, South Carolina Genealogy Home Page! Located in the Piedmont region of northwestern South Carolina, Union County has a rich history. During the early 1700s, the area that ultimately became Union County was occupied by the Cherokee Indians. The first European settlers arrived during the 1750s, and Union County was officially established in 1785. Through the years, Union County has been home to a diverse group of people -- English, Scotch-Irish, French Huguenots, Welsh, Germans, African-Americans, Native Americans, and many others. People who have Union County roots can be found throughout the United States!
As part of The SCGenWeb Project and The USGenWeb Project, this page is designed to be a valuable resource for everyone who is doing research in Union County, and can be viewed clearly on most web browsers. Please feel free to "look around" and learn more about Union County. But most importantly, get involved -- post a query, answer a query, add the Union County surnames that you are researching to our list, volunteer to do lookups, submit information, check out the links to other WEB pages, and make suggestions about how the Union County page can be improved!
Union County SC Genealogy Home Page Table of Contents
The South Carolina GenWeb Project seeks to provide a single entry point for all counties in South Carolina, where genealogical data about each county can be easily found. The South Carolina Archives provides a centralized location where collected databases can be stored, including transcriptions of public records. Victoria Proctor is the State Coordinator for The SCGenWeb Project. He is also the coordinator for the South Carolina Archives.
The USGenWeb Project is a loosely organized group of volunteers working to create a center for genealogical research for every county in the United States on the Internet, with information that is freely available to the public. The Project's ultimate goal is to index and cross-link the collected information, so that a single search in the master index could locate all references to a given individual or surname across all pages and databases associated with the project. Bob Bamford is the Interim National Coordinator for The USGenWeb Project.
Volunteers are being found who are willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page for each county. If you would like to contribute your data or create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining your state or county page.
My name is Audrey McDowell and I am the County Coordinator for Union County, SC. If you would like to contribute information to this page, please let me know! :-)
Union County, South Carolina is located in the piedmont section of northwestern South Carolina's "upcountry." Union County was named after the Union Church, which was built around 1751 by early settlers near Brown's Creek, and was alternately used by several different denominations. Union County occupies 515 square miles and has 30,337 residents (1990 census).
In many ways, Union County South Carolina is a quintessential small Southern town. Historian Allen Charles, Ph.D. has written that Union County "embod[ies] in its history the complex currents which make up the great stream of Southern history." Dr. Charles has also noted that "military devotion is an unusually strong tradition in the county which otherwise is so typical."
Dr. Charles has identified three major periods in Union County's history:
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An important goal of The SCGenWeb Project involves providing a central location for accessing data related to genealogical research in each county -- including background information, queries, surname lists, resource lists and various types of searchable databases. This section contains links to searchable databases related to genealogical research in Union County, South Carolina that are available on the Internet. Click the links below to view the searchable databases.
Click here to Submit Information About Other Searchable Databases on the Internet.
The Union County, SC Genealogy Page seeks to provide links to other WEB pages that contain relevant information. So far, the topics include: the GenWeb project, General Genealogy, Ethnic Genealogy, South Carolina, Union County, and the Civil War. Do you have your own WEB page, or do you know of other WEB pages that would be useful to Union County researchers? Please provide suggestions!!!
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Click here to Submit Information About Other Good WEB Pages.
This page is maintained by Audrey McDowell / unionscgen@aol.com
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