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Welcome to the South Carolina USGenWeb Obituary Project! If you don't find your obituary on our pages ~ Please use our Search Engine Database ~ Updated Daily!!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
There are three levels of volunteering work involved in helping with this
project:
1.Submitting whole obituaries as seen in the newspaper.
Permission is required. See bottom of page for information and sample letter.
2. Indexing the information found in the obituary (Name,
dob, dod, locations, parents, spouses, marriage date & location, cemetery,
funeral home, date of source, picture availability) . If you live in
South Carolina or know someone who does that subscribes to a local paper,
then you can help with this project! You can index the local paper. Permission
is not required from the newspaper, so begin today. It is easy, not a lot
of typing is involved, just a dedication to saving the obits and typing in
the basic information for each one. Estimated amount of time five to ten
minutes a day (or save them and do them on the weekend). More information
available at bottom of this page.
3. Individual Obituaries also accepted. Permission is required
to place the obit word for word. Otherwise a synopsis or index of the obit
can be submitted without permission.
Know the city
and need the county?
SCArchives Obituaries & Death Notices Submission Form
Any obituary contributions pertaining to South Carolina are most welcomed!
Please use our automated system to submit records. Thank you.
Participating Newspapers Some other site of interest Alphabetical Index
Here is how you can help with the Obituary Project
To volunteer send your name, email address,
and the newspaper you will be working from, make a note if you are indexing
or submitting whole obits. Once a month, you will email me your file of obit
information. We will then place them online.
Contact local newspapers to ask permission for the USGenWeb Archives Project
to archive their obituaries. Here is a sample
letter to send to the newspapers. Contact
with the name of the newspaper and name and title of person granting permission from the
publication.
Check with state archives and genealogical societies to locate microfilm
or other sources of pre-1928 (public domain) newspapers to transcribe obituaries
from.
Something to think about, some newspapers offer subscriptions by mail.
Volunteer to transcribe obituaries from newspapers already granting permission
(must have access to their publication or website).
Copyright Law: The South Carolina Obituary Project
will abide by today's copyright laws. Obituaries published after December
31, 1928, unless:
you were the original author of the obituary,
or
the newspaper in question grants permission
to reprint the obituary, or
the obituary is that of a family member
(you must give the relation), or
you submit an abstract/INDEX of your
obituaries.
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