Chesterfield District Genealogy

Chapter of the

South Carolina Genealogical Society

Chesterfield District Genealogy Society

P.O. Box 167

Chesterfield, South Carolina 29709

Chesterfield District Chapter, S.C.G.S. publishes quarterly the Chesterfield District Chronicle. We hold regular monthly meetings the second Sunday of each month except July and December. Some of the the projects that we are involved in are: collecting church histories from all the denominations in our area and encouraging these churches to have their records microfilmed, adopting and cleaning abandoned cemeteries, and having memorial markers placed for our county’s war dead.

We are a chapter of the South Carolina Genealogical Society of which there are 13 other chapters all across the state. S.C.G.S. holds a Summer Workshop each July at the South Carolina Archives and History Center in Columbia and their Annual Meeting each Fall. S.C.G.S. publishes quarterly the Carolina Herald and Newsletter and other beneficial books periodically.

If YOU, or anyone you know, has historical records of Chesterfield County, or anyplace, the Chesterfield District Genealogical Society would love to provide you a place to preserve for your original or copies of your family records.

Please consider donating your historical records to our society or another place of your choice to ensure your family history is safe.

New Website Updates

There are many new record sets that are being inventoried and reviewed for inclusion in the societies Website.

Check out the information we have started to gather for SC250-Chesterfield, the webpage dedicated to our ancestor patriots of the American Revolution in preparation of the 250th Anniversary of the United States of America

Upcoming Meetings and Events

All Society meetings are held at the Old Chesterfield Courthouse, 100 Main Street, Chesterfield SC, 29709 at 3:00 pm on the 2nd Sunday of each Month with the exception of July and December. Currently Meetings are being held across the street in the Chesterfield Branch Library Meeting Room.

Below is a link to the most comprehensive genealogical training calendar available, literally thousands of class, available in person and in a virtual environment. Please check out Conference Keeper.org for all your training, meeting or event needs. We will attempt to highlight some of these events in our calendar as we can.

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Wanda Davis Pate from Laurel Hill wrote on September 24, 2024 at 7:55 pm

what date will the library be open in October ? Thank you of the information . Wanda Pate

Ebony Custis from Camden wrote on September 12, 2024 at 10:00 pm

Hi Everyone! My name is Ebony Custis/Blakney. I have been doing my genealogy and stumbled across this page looking for information on my ancestors who were born in Chesterfield South Carolina. One of my main interests is to find information on my 3rd time great grandfather Aaron Blakney who was born in 1830. He appears on the 1860 US census slave schedule. It seems he was the slave owner with 3 slaves 2 females and 1 male. He married Kizzie Blakeney in which they had a son Aaron A Blakney born in January of 1870. Please help I am desperate to figure out what happened with my ancestors as I was born in New Jersey which leads me to believe there was a migration. Thank You in advance.

Rosemary Vaske from Gold River wrote on July 25, 2024 at 1:49 pm

I am looking for the death certificate or the obituary for Lewis Conner. He died in Marlboro, Cheraws, S.C. in 1793. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, RoseMary Vaske

Linda Collins from Cabot, AR 72023 wrote on December 2, 2023 at 11:12 pm

I am glad to know that the Chesterfield District in SC holds regular meetings. My interest in the area is for ancestors for my late husband--Collins lineage. One of these days, I may be able to visit the area, though time is not on my side. The next best option would be that I might find info about his Collins family from area-specific documents that cannot be found online. Is that wishful thinking? Linda Collins, AR

Rebecca Mandrell from Richland, MI wrote on August 28, 2023 at 12:47 pm

Hello, I am hoping to find photos of my 3rd, 4th and 5th grandparents. They are Tristram Thomas, and Mary Hollingsworth, Joseph Burch Jr and Elizabeth Thomas, Joseph Thomas Burch and Susannah Jackson. Also, if anyone would have them, photos of their son Joseph J Burch and Elizabeth Graves Johnson and their son Moultrie Kirkwood Burch and his wife Julia Huntley. If you might even suggest where to locate those photos, I’d be very grateful. I’m planning a trip south next Spring. Thank you so very much!