At 09:58 PM 5/10/98 EDT, JRaffety wrote: >I'm a new subscriber and delighted with this list! I have, in my great >grandmother's hand, a paper that says, " Divorce August 1892." We have never >been sure if it was a true divorce or not. My great grandparents lived in >Salt Lake City. I understand that the Salt Lake County Clerk has divorce >records from statehood on, but where would I find territorial divorce records? >Any ideas? > >Thanks, Julie > > Julie and all: Somebody correct me if I am wrong (happens ever once in a while :).... The Utah State Historical Society used to have a page on-line. I know they have Territorial records. Also, on the Ancestry.com site, there is a place you can order cds and such. Check to see if they happen to have a copy of the cd that has the Utah Territorial REcords. This would include marriages, court records, divorces, probably some of those 'committed' records ;) If my memory serves me right, the time of the divorce is a little later than when the Church declared polygamy illegal. Of course, depending on the marriage date of your ancestors, they might have been married when polygamy was practiced. They could have remained 'married' until such a time when it came to passing on property, inheriting estates, etc., then things could have become difficult. I know that my ggrandfather was a polygamist. His second wife left him and finished her life in California. He lived with his third wife (my ggrandmother) in Stone, Idaho and they had a very prosperous life. This was just far enough away from Utah (just a spit) to have the Marshals ignore them. The Marshals wanted those BIGTIME polygamists who lived in Utah, not just a Rancher with one 'current' wife ;) Anyway, enough of my 'stories'. I would see if you could find the cd that has the records for Territorial Utah. There might even be one of 'us' here who has these on hand and could look for you. Does anyone have a current url for the Utah State Historical Society? Terri