Dorchester County SC Genealogy
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If you're not sure which records would be helpful, you can try our Ancestor Source Finder tool. Dorchester Records by TypeBirth Records (1)Cemetery Records (190) Census Records (27) Church Records (4) City Directories (2) Death Records (6) Histories and Genealogies (5) Land Records (1) Map Records (7) Marriage Records (2) Military Records (4) Miscellaneous Records (1) Newspapers and Obituaries (14) Probate Records (3) School Records (11) 
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Overview of Dorchester County Records
- Dorchester County was created in 1897 from Berkeley and Colleton counties.
- Birth and death records from 1915 to the present, as well as marriage records from 1950 to the present can be obtained from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control .
- The Dorchester County Clerk has birth records starting in 1915.
- The Dorchester County Probate Judge has marriage records starting in 1911 and probate records starting in 1897.
- Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.