Hi List, A lady asked me for help with a lookup for her great grandparent's 1889 divorce. Any ideas on how to help her? Here's the info: I'm new to genealogy research so I don't know exactly who to contact for what I'm looking for. The website sfgenealogy.com has a list of San Francisco divorces (1889). I believe my great grandparents are listed in that info: Hamilton-Amelia from James M, March 15; habitual intemperance and failure to provide. Can you tell me who I might contact to try and get more information about the divorce? I have very little information about Amelia and especially about James and would love to find out more. Thank you for any advice you can give me. Linda Hamid Sweetwater Poultry email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] web: <http://www.sweeth2o.us> www.sweeth2o.us
I think your best source is the newspaper sources at the time or leading up to the court action. If they were in the social news, newsworthy or otherwise prominent I think it would be difficult to find more information. I did find an artist's sketch occupying l/4 of a page with the wife on the second floor shooting at her husband taking off through the front door but never did find mention of their divorce They had been in the news because of their craziness, and one paper quoted at length a sister about her brother-in-law in jail. Real crazy stuff. Check all of the SF newspapers for that time. Ruth Armstrong ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Hamid" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:31 PM Subject: [CASANFRA] 1889 SF divorce > Hi List, > > > > A lady asked me for help with a lookup for her great grandparent's 1889 > divorce. Any ideas on how to help her? Here's the info: > > > > I'm new to genealogy research so I don't know exactly who to contact for > what I'm looking for. The website sfgenealogy.com has a list of San > Francisco divorces (1889). I believe my great grandparents are listed in > that info: Hamilton-Amelia from James M, March 15; habitual intemperance > and > failure to provide. Can you tell me who I might contact to try and get > more > information about the divorce? I have very little information about Amelia > and especially about James and would love to find out more. Thank you for > any advice you can give me. > > > > Linda Hamid > > Sweetwater Poultry > > email: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] > > web: <http://www.sweeth2o.us> www.sweeth2o.us > > > > > > ==== CASANFRA Mailing List ==== > See "What's New" at sfgenealogy.com: > http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/index.htm#new > >