Rsroon@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone on the list know what sort of records are available from the > Catholic Diocese of Charleston? BOOK LINKS: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA RECORDS & ROMAN CATHOLICS by Brent H. Holcomb <scmar@juno.com> Cities tend to have more records and more kinds of records than counties or other divisions. For example, the city of Charleston began keeping records of deaths in the year 1819. The earliest Roman Catholic Church in the Carolinas or Georgia was St. Mary's in Charleston, established in 1789. There has been a considerable Catholic community there since that time. A new title has been published concerning death records on this group of people. ROMAN CATHOLIC DEATHS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 1800-1860, by Susan S. King. Hardcover, 330 pages, alphabetically arranged. $43 postpaid. Order from SCMAR, PO Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221. These records were compiled from the following sources: St. Mary of the Annunciation Interment Records 1801-1859, St. Lawrence Cemetery Register 1852-1877, St. Patrick's Burial Ground Records, Death Records of the City of Charleston 1819-1859, Correspondence of Bishop Ignatius Reynolds 1854, and The United States Catholic Miscellany 1822- 1859. Many entries carry additional information such as "native of Ireland," "son or daughter of," "wife or widow of," etc. So few records have been published concerning Roman Catholics in South Carolina that this volume is a boon to researchers and a welcome addition to the bibliography of source materials available for research on Catholics. Previously published by Julia M. Case and Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG, Missing Links, Vol. 5, No. 13, 29 March 2000 (April Fool's Day Edition). RootsWeb: <http://www.rootsweb.com/>