Try this--and have fun! www.google.com Type in quotation marks "Welsh Neck" Up will come several links to the Welsh Neck Baptist Church in SC - begin. ca 1738 (pretty early!) The confusing thing about SC research--besides lack of records, which they blame on 1) Cornwallis and then 2) Sherman, is that the names of the jurisdictions changed all the time. A lot of the stuff I have accumulated in over 25 years of gathering information on how to do geneal. research is now on the web. You might find some guides to SC research there, particularly on the LDS website: www.familysearch.org Anyway, try this title (of a pamphlet) with google.com and see if there is anything on the web. "The formation of counties in South Carolina" This is the name of a pamphlet I bought ca 1994 from the SC Dept of Archives & History in Columbia. It is full of maps to help you get a handle on what existed (jurisdictions) at various times. If you have any idea that your man was in SC, then you want to get a guide to direct you to what is available in SC for the time period in which you are interested. But if you think your man was in Georgia before going to Florida (which belonged to Spain for a LONG time), then it MAY be easier to search in Georgia (no guarantees!) Again, you might want to enlist the help of your public librarian to find a book (we hope) on the migration of the Welsh to these shores. If you are near a community college, you might have better luck in that library (or in a University library). Williams researchers should tune in here and help you--especially us Williamses who have Southern roots. E.W.Wallace