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From: "James R. Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [CASANFRA] What a great resource
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:21:53 -0700
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Hi Nancy,

The fire destroyed the records of the Superior Court where divorces
proceedings took place. However, all is not lost. Divorces were listed
in the city newspapers so if you know about when it happened, you could
thumb through.

Beyond that, in Nancy S. Peterson's Raking the Ashes, she states that
some newspapers printed a compiled alphabetical summary of divorces at
year end that included surnames and grounds - but not the date. She has
a list of some of those from 1856 to 1892. At least you would have the
year and grounds if these were done for 1904 and 1904.

This book is gold. I'm almost finished reading it and I've learned so
much more about SF genealogy.

Jim

wrote:

>By any chance would it contain April 1904-1905 divorce records, or should I
>just consider such things to have become ashes in 1906?
>Nancy
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