This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IeB.2ACI/56.1 Message Board Post: Angie, Our newspaper in Beaufort is called the Beaufort Gazette and our library has archived newspapers on microfiche. If you are adopted the original birth certificate would be sealed and you can't get it. South Carolina DHEC has a website where you can order a birth certificate otherwise. I was born here in 1973 too.