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Sumter County, South Carolina |
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Queries
To have your query posted by the County Coordinator:
In the interest of keeping the
information
that is posted here relevant and manageable,
please follow these simple guidelines
when posting to Sumter County:
- 1. Please enter a query here ONLY if you have roots in Sumter County. Mention Sumter County in your query so that I am sure that it belongs on the Sumter page.
- 2. Include your full name in your query request.
- 3. Please put New Sumter County Query in the subject area of your message. I coordinate other counties and as assistant state coordinator for SCGenWeb, I often take on the duty of posting queries to an orphan county. I must know which county you want your query posted to.
- 4. Please write your query in this order: query surname(s) in upper case letters, query text , date of posting, your full name, and your e-mail address. (Send your mailing address , fax/phone number if desired.) This format will save me time and simplify the process of copy and paste so that I will make fewer errors in posting. Your e-mail address and full name are required before a query can be posted.
- 5. Please limit the content of your query to just the basic data that someone needs in order to assist you. This not only helps conserve server space, but will generate more responses for you. People tend to pay more attention to shorter, direct requests. I may have to edit queries that seem overly long.
- 6. Once you see that your query is up, please check your query for accuracy and make sure that your e-mail link works.
- 7. If your e-mail address changes, please notify me of your new address as soon as possible. Be sure to let me know exactly which page in which county your entry is on. I take care of a number of pages with hundreds of queries and surnames, so searching for your entry would be very time consuming. I cannot change the query or e-mail address if I don't know the exact name or url of the page.
Some of the researchers who read these pages are viewing them from a public library. They do not have personal e-mail access. If you would like for me to post your snail mail address along with your query, please send it within the body of your query. I will post any queries mailed to me. If you wish for a reply, acknowledging the receipt of your query, include a self addressed stamped envelope.
E-mail your query to: scsumter@sc.rr.com
or snail mail it to: 6 Sandalwood Lane, Sumter, S.C. 29154
and I will post your query as soon as I possibly can.
Be sure that " Sumter Query" is in the subject area of your message.
I coordinate the web pages for other counties, so I must know which county you want your query posted to, plus I am on a number of mailing lists so I tend to delete some of the of e-mails that clutter my mail box with out reading all of them unless the subject catches my attention. If "Sumter Query" is not placed in the subject area, it might be deleted without being read because there are days when I get 100 or more messages. I just can't read all of them. Please grab my attention with your subject line. I don't want to delete your message by mistake.
I will let you know when I receive your query and when you can expect to see your query posted. When contacting me by mail, unless you include a self-addressed-stamped envelope, I cannot acknowledge the receipt of your letter. Please remember that I am a volunteer for the SCGenWeb project, and that I only post information to the web pages that I coordinate for others to view via the internet; I am not available for doing any personal research.
I recieve a huge amount of e-mail and I am unable to read it all.
I will be sure to read your message if you place Sumter in the subject line.
If you don't put Sumter in the subject, I may delete your message without reading it!
Queries are usually posted over the weekend
I will do my best to post new queries at least once per week. I teach school, I have a family, and 4 dogs and a cat so I might get behind. I always (almost always) get caught up over the weekend. If you see any errors, ommisions, typos, etc. please let me know. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated. I am also coordinating the Clarendon County and the Lee County, South Carolina pages so be sure to let me know which county or counties you want to have your query posted on. If you don't mention the county name, I will have to email you back and wait for your reply, which will make the process take longer.
Please Remember
I am quite willing to share information on the surnames that I research, but please understand that I am an amatuer genealogist, researching my own family lines. I do not research other surnames. I am happy to share my knowledge of Sumter County and to do quick lookups in the resources that I own, but I am not available for outside research. See the surname pages to find out which surnames I am researching and check the references page to see which books I own. Please, do not write to me asking me to do a "quick" lookup in something like a Sumter County census or run to the courthouse for you and mail you a copy of a will. I am sure that you understand.
Thousands of people access the Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee County pages and there are over 700 folks on the SCSumter mailing list. Maybe one of them knows about your family line. I won't know anything about your family history unless we happen to share ancestors. I spend all of my spare time as a volunteer taking care of the Sumter, Clarendon, and Lee County SCGenWeb sites, working as the SCGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator, and researching at the Sumter County Museum Archives. What little spare time I have left, I devote to researching my own family tree. I do not do outside research.
Sumter has one of the best local archives in the state of South Carolina and our courthouse has won awards for their preservation of old records. The Sumter County Library has an entire reference area devoted to genealogy. Come here, to Sumter County to do your research and you'll receive a warm welcome. If you need information about where to research here in Sumter, just e-mail me. When you visit our local archives, keep an eye out for me. I'll be the one typing furiously on the Macintosh laptop, but I'll be happy to stop typing for a bit and say hello.
Unknown County Page
If you don't know what county in South Carolina your ancestors came from you may post your unknown county queries on
South Carolina's Unknown County Query Page
Query Page Links for
Sumter County, South Carolina
Sumter
County Queries # 1 October 1996 - March 1997
Sumter
County Queries # 2 April 1997 - July 1997
Sumter
County Queries # 3 August 1997 - October 1997
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County Queries # 4 November 1997 - January 1998
Sumter
County Queries # 5 February 1998 - April 1998
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County Queries # 6 May 1998 - August 1998
Sumter
County Queries # 7 September 1998 - December 1998
Sumter
County Queries #8 January 1999 - April 1999
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County Queries #9 May 1999 - August 1999
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County Queries # 10 September 1999 - December 31, 1999
Sumter
County Queries # 11 January 1, 2000 - May 30, 2000
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County Queries # 12 June 1, 2000 - December 31, 2000
Sumter
County Queries # 13 January 1, 2001 - December 31, 2001
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County Queries # 14 January 1, 2002 - June 8 - 2003
Sumter
County Queries # 15 June 9, 2003 - January 2005
Sumter
County Queries # 16 February 1, 2005 - present
Changes In E-mail Addresses or E-mails that Bounce From Query Pages
If a query writer's email address does not work, I will not know what their new e-mail address is.
Please, if your e-mail address changes, let me know.
You'll need to let me know:
- Exactly which page the query is on
- Surname in your query
- Your old email address
- Your new email address
- Your name
don't expect me to know the query writer's new e-mail address.
They moved and didn't let me know.
Old Sumter District, South Carolina
Mailing List
To subscribe to the Old Sumter District Mailing List, click below on the blue hypertext to send an e-mail message to:
SCSUMTER-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com.
In the subject and body of your message place only one word, subscribe.
(You will type the word subscribe, twice. Place it in the subject and in the body of your message.)
Please, be sure to spell the word correctly or the computer will bounce your message to me and not subscribe you.
To subscribe to digest mode instead of list mode your one word message of subscribe goes to:
SCSUMTER-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com .
To unsubscribe from the SCSumter list or digest, send your message to the same request address,
but change the one word message to unsubscribe.
DO NOT put anything else in your message or the SmartList will bounce it to me.
SmartList only recognizes certain key words.
Your email address is picked up from your "reply to" information.
Be sure that your "reply to" is correct.
If your "reply to"
information
if not correct in your preferences, your subscription request will be
lost
in cyberspace. I won't know that you tried to subscribe, because I
won't
know your correct e-mail address. SmartList will just bounce the
messages
back to your ISP.
If Your E-Mail Address Changes
If your e-mail address changes, please unsubscribe yourself using your old address and when you get your new address, subscribe yourself again.
More Information
Since the list is dedicated to only three counties in South Carolina, there is not an enormous amount of traffic to deluge your mailbox. But, do check your mail on a regular basis. If your mailbox becomes full, your ISP will bounce any incoming mail that came from the Old Sumter District list back to Rootsweb, who in turn bounces it to me. Generally, your ISP has stripped the message of everything except for the address and subject line and it wouldn't do any good for me to forward it on to you it would just bounce again until the mailbox was no longer full. (Believe me, at first I did try to make sure that everyone got their mail. It became too much of a burden, so now I have made it my policy to just delete bounced mail with the message, "mailbox ful." I was spending too much time with bounced mail.) When bouncing email becomes a problem, the Rootsweb server will automatically remove that person's address from the mailing list after 3 bounced messages and the person will have to resubscribe.
Remember: You cannot send
messages
across the SCSumter list if you are not a subscriber. This policy is in
force in order to keep SPAM off of the list. Rootsweb has a SPAM
bouncer
program. Any potenial SPAM is bounced to me. I read it and if it has
been
bounced in error, I forward it back on to the list. So far there have
been
no errors and hundreds of SPAM messages have been bounced from the
SCSumter
list by Rootsweb so that they did not end up in the subscribers'
mailboxes.
Occasionally, a message of genealogical interest will be sent by a
non-subscriber
who forgets that only members can post a message. If the message is one
that needs to be forwarded on to the list, I will send it on. When you
see a forwarded message, please reply to the email address embedded
within
the message and not to me.
I hope that you enjoy the SCSUMTER list. I certainly do.
Remember, only
subscribers
may post a message to the list.
Archived Postings From the SCSumter Mailing List
If new subscribers would like to see the old postings, as of December 1, 1997, they began to be archived by Rootsweb at :
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
Type in SCSumter to search the archives.
South Carolina Genealogy Mailing List
Recommended by SCGenWeb, the South Carolina Genealogy mailing list is an on line discussion group devoted to the sharing of South Carolina genealogy. The list owner is Laura L Schmidt , coordinator of the Franklin County, Washington USGenWeb homepage. To subscribe to this mailing list, click on the blue hypertext below and send your one word message of subscribe.
Only subscribers may post a message to the list.
North Carolina/ South Carolina Roots Mailing List
For subscription instructions to the North Carolina/South Carolina Roots Mailing List click here.
Queries pertain to North and South Carolina surname questions as well as to place names and bits of Carolina history.
Only subscribers may post a message to the list.
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This page was last updated on February
21, 2005