This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------A0556656A3B061827FEFA845 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They'll be in the court records in the county clerk's office. In Illinois, everything is sealed for privacy reasons and you'll be doing good to get the indexes to look at if you appear at the front desk. You may have better luck searching the newspaper clippings and the genealogical index in the Public Library for references to Fink and possibly a divorce announcement. Members of the Black Hawk Genealogical Society do lookups for a small donation. Or possibly the Library will help search the index in the locked room. I forget what it's called. :-( Good luck! Diana John McDonald wrote: > (I'm not sure if this was posted previously, so excuse me if this is a > second identical message). > > I'm wondering how to search for a divorce that likely occured in Rock Island > County. Jacob FINK, his wife Genevieve and children were in Rock Island in > 1870. In 1880, Genevieve and family were living in Davenport, Iowa and she > was listed as "divorced" on the census. > > I haven't been able to find Jacob in the 1880 census. (Scott or Rock Island > Counties) The divorce may have been in Scott County, but I have to check > Rock Island as being a good possibility. > > Any advice on how to find divorce records 1870-1880 in Rock Island County > will be appreciated. > > --John McDonald > Grass Valley, California > jmcd@oro.net > > ==== ILROCKIS Mailing List ==== > LDS Family Search Engine: > http://www.familysearch.org/ > Illinois State Archives Databases including pre 1900 IL marriages: > http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/database.html -- Diana J. Muir, Ph.D. ******************************************* What good is magic if it can't save a unicorn? ******************************************* Professional Educator and Genealogist http://www.rootsweb.com/~genclass/ --------------A0556656A3B061827FEFA845 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="dmuir.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Diana Muir Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="dmuir.vcf" begin:vcard n:Muir;Diana tel;cell:319-621-5827 tel;fax:678-795-0925 tel;home:678-795-0925 tel;work:770-518-4800 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.intelligented.com/ org:Intelligent Education;Curriculum Development version:2.1 email;internet:dmuir@intelligented.com title:Dr. adr;quoted-printable:;;1175 Grimes Bridge Road=0D=0ASuite 100-A;Roswell;GA;30076;USA fn:Diana Muir end:vcard --------------A0556656A3B061827FEFA845--