FAIRFIELD
COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA
LAND
DEED SERIES
These are copies of the original land deed series for
Fairfield County, South Carolina. This
is a joint project with the Fairfield County Historical Museum and the
Fairfield County Library. This is the
entire Land Deed Series in the county records.
The records are from microfilm rolls provided by the museum and library.
The indexes cover the entire deed series, so they
should be used regardless of which volume is being looked at.
The files are in .tif and
.jpg formats and are best viewed in an imaging application.
This particular project is based on IrFanView, available for free at:
If you install this application, it will add it as a
browser plug-in and will auto-invoke when you click any of the below links.
The
images in IrFanView are best viewed in the full 16.7m
color scale, to allow the widest range of grayscale.
Land
Deed and Bond Series Index
1786-1841
Direct (Seller) Index : Bond A + Deeds
1786-1841
Indirect (Buyer) Index : Bond A + Deeds
1842-1900+
Direct (Seller) Index
1842-1900+
Indirect (Buyer) Index
(For
now, these are links to the file store.
Working on the web pages.)
Bond
Book
This is a single volume of bonds, receipts, powers of
attorney, and other miscellaneous transactions.
Note that this book is indexed above as
the first Volume A.
Deed
Books
Please
note – quality varies between the deed books.
Some
pages in some volumes are extremely faded.
The scanned images are the best that could be obtained.
Note that different volumes will have a different file format
and frame layout. Some volumes were
digitized with
a Canon MS-500 scanner and are 1-page per frame. Others were digitized with
a Wicks-Wilson UScan+ with RapidScan, so it autoimages at
the full two-page frame size.
Note that some pages are faded in certain volumes, up to being
nearly unreadable. What you see
Is the best available after all image enhancement options. If a page is nonetheless too faded
to read, your best option is to order a photocopy from the
*original* book from the SC Archives.
Ordering a copy from the microfilm may not be much better than
these.
This has caused some files to be extremely large: in excess of
15MB. There isn’t much I can do about
that.
I believe the volume uploads went correctly, but if a file is
not complete, please e-mail with the file name.
Also if you find an image unusable (blurry, light, etc.), please
e-mail with the file name, to ashvainmo@yahoo.com.
Note that an occasional frame is blurred on the microfilm
due to technician error, so you may have to
order a photocopy from the original. I have noted it where I have noticed it so
far.
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