divorce documents here
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Re: divorce documents here
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Posted: 9 Jul 2009 12:44AM GMT |
Classification: Query
If you are looking for recent divorce items, you are very unlikely to find anything on this site.
There are very few items on this site relating specifically to court records about divorces.
One way to locate a few database listings that are indexes of divorce records is by scrolling through the ones listed with the "Birth, Marriage and Death" category, here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=34
--this will work best if you look at thin yellow-tan ribbon at the top of the page, scroll over to the right and click on "old search", then paste the above link into your browser again and go to the listing.
There is no way to use "New Search" or "Old Search" to search for a specific category of vital record (birth, marriage, divorce, death), in a general search where you put in names.
Another way to look for the few databases that specifically are divorce indexes is to go to the Card Catalog (**after** you have selected "Old Search") here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
--in the "keyword" box put in "divorce" or "divorces" or both, use the location box to select a State if you wish, and click on search.
For each of the above looking-for-database hunts, click on the likely-looking database and you will get a search page that you can enter a name in; enter it and any related information that you know, and click on search.
One more possibility is in the "Court, land and probate" group of databases for which there is a search page that you can put a name in, here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=36&am...
Overall, since divorces were usually County Court proceedings, and Ancestry.com has very little in the way of County Court records, you would have to be very lucky to find something relevant.
There are very few items on this site relating specifically to court records about divorces.
One way to locate a few database listings that are indexes of divorce records is by scrolling through the ones listed with the "Birth, Marriage and Death" category, here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=34
--this will work best if you look at thin yellow-tan ribbon at the top of the page, scroll over to the right and click on "old search", then paste the above link into your browser again and go to the listing.
There is no way to use "New Search" or "Old Search" to search for a specific category of vital record (birth, marriage, divorce, death), in a general search where you put in names.
Another way to look for the few databases that specifically are divorce indexes is to go to the Card Catalog (**after** you have selected "Old Search") here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx
--in the "keyword" box put in "divorce" or "divorces" or both, use the location box to select a State if you wish, and click on search.
For each of the above looking-for-database hunts, click on the likely-looking database and you will get a search page that you can enter a name in; enter it and any related information that you know, and click on search.
One more possibility is in the "Court, land and probate" group of databases for which there is a search page that you can put a name in, here:
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/default.aspx?rt=36&am...
Overall, since divorces were usually County Court proceedings, and Ancestry.com has very little in the way of County Court records, you would have to be very lucky to find something relevant.