If you are familiar with the Leonardo Andreas genealogies on microfilm, they
contain a lot of information on families. I understand that Leonardo Andreas
was an earlier professional genealogist that that did genealogies for
families that came into or lived in South Carolina. He gave all his records to South
Carolina State Archives (I understand that this is what happened), and the
Archives have put these genealogies on microfilm.
I looked at the microfilm on two of my families and printed off about 63
pages on my Palmer line, and over 100 pages on my Robertson line. I have an index
of names of families that are on microfilm and Caldwell is one of the
families he researched and the information is on microfilm.
If you are not able to get to a large library with a well stocked genealogy
library, these microfilm can be ordered from LDS by your local Family History
Center for a nominal cost. Andreas genealogies are not family group sheets,
but are abstracts of info found on these families from all kinds of legal
records, i.e., Wills, Deeds, church records, etc.
I plan to go to Houston within the next 2 months, and research at the Clayton
Genealogical Library for a few days and Caldwells are on my list.
I have heard that the many of the Caldwells followed a similar manner in
naming their children: first son named after paternal grandfather; second son
after the maternal grandfather. Therefore, in NC and on down into SC, they
seemed to use only a few names repeatedly: JAMES, WILLIAM, JOHN.
If you do not have legal documents, marriage records, death records, census,
etc., to watch carefully the timeframe, you can easily be tracing a William
(the grandfather) and William (the uncle) at the same time. So, if Leonardo
Andreas has already given one an abstract of a Will, or abstract of contents of a
Deed, or bible, it gives you an advantage in searching these lines that can
be so confusing.
Betty
Texas