Scott Wilds, CG®, is a board-certified genealogist and a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. His South Carolina interests and roots include colonial Charleston, the Welsh Tract, Orangeburg, and Williamsburg Scots Irish. He especially enjoys breaking down brick walls using indirect evidence. For the last thirty years, much of his research has focused on Darlington County African American families. He has published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Record and has been an instructor at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. In 2022–2023, he was a consultant to Reuter’s investigative series, Slavery’s Descendants: The Ancestral Ties to Slaveholding of Today’s Political Elite. He has a master’s degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania and was an associate editor of the Papers of William Penn.
Courses
- 2026 – Researching Your South Carolina Roots: Finding Family in the Palmetto State
