Local History & Genealogy Resources

Digital Library Resources

Ancestry Library Edition

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Ancestry Library Edition, the largest online family history resource available, provides unprecedented access to documents that record the lineage of individuals from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more. Available in libraries only.

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HeritageQuest

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Research your family history from anywhere in the 1790-1950 U.S. Census, the full text of over 20,000 family and local histories, an index of 6,300 local history and genealogy periodicals, and a database of Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant files.

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Historic American Newspapers

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Library of Congress digitized newspapers from 1777 - 1963 including historic SC newspapers.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South Carolina

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Search the Anderson Independent-Mail from 1973-present, The Greenville News from 1881-present, and USA Today from 2009-present.

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Universal Class – Continuing Education Courses

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More than 600 courses in 35 subject areas, anytime on any device, with real human instructors who grade assignments and provide feedback.

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Local History & Genealogy Resources

Anderson County Museum

Anderson County Museum

The Belton Center for the Arts, founded in 1999, is a cultural arts center that is committed to engaging the community in the education, exhibition, and exploration of fine arts.

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Belton Area Museum

Belton Center for the Arts

The Belton Area Museum Association was founded in 1975. The organization’s purpose is to collect, exhibit, preserve, and interpret the artifacts, sites, antiquities, and genealogical, archival, cultural, and natural history of Belton, Anderson County, and The State of South Carolina.

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Pendleton Historic Foundation

Pendleton Historic Foundation

Pendleton offers a southern hospitality that is beyond compare. Our picturesque town, on the South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, offers a glimpse of days gone by. The entire town is on the National Historic Registry, so history can be found on every street.

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Additional Web Resources

Includes newspapers, military records, court records, land records, probate records, tax records, and more. Available to view at the Anderson Main Library.

See our full listing of holdings.

American Heritage

Anderson Independent-Mail

Historical Newspapers of South Carolina (via University of South Carolina Libraries)

Sandlapper: the Magazine of South Carolina (via SC State Library’s Digital Collections)

South Carolina Digital Newspapers (via the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America project), including The Anderson Intelligencer, 1860-1900