My interests are not in the current Georgetown, but my family had records there earlier on. My BROCKINTON, NESMITH, and CONYERS relatives from Williamsburg had records filed in Georgetown around 1800, and of course, lost in the 1860's. Are there work-arounds for these probate records? I've only found newspaper notices by administrators to document these deaths. In what is now Dillon County, I research the ROGERS, BETHEA, and BROWN families. The BROWNs also lived in Marlboro. In particular, William H. BROWN (son of William, who was son of Samuel, who was son of Rev. John) married Margaret ROGERS (daughter of Timothy, who was son of Lot, who was son of Robert Rogers of Gates Co., NC). They moved to Mississippi about 1849, and both died in Smith County, MS. Their oldest daughter, Melissa BROWN married J. S. BROCKINTON in MS, and they moved to Arkansas in 1869. Most of the records of this area have very little information about this branch of the family, and give nothing on the descendants of Margaret. She is mentioned in her father's will, with the statement that she now lived in MS, and some of the books say she married W. H. Brown, but nothing further. I have a copy of their family Bible records that document all this thoroughly. I also research William SCREVEN, who is buried in Georgetown having died there in 1713. My line is through his son Elisha ->Elizabeth, who married James FOWLER ->Martha FOWLER who married Capt. John BROCKINTON, and so on. ....Betty