This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Whittemore/Dowd Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFB.2ACE/855 Message Board Post: It has been some time since I first saw messages about Alva Whittemore and Mary Josephine Dowd. I have been going through alot of my genealogy data (getting it all on my computer). In the last year and 1/2 I have come across a Divorce Liber in the Lansing Library that has been a tremendous help. Anyway, my connection is Mary Josephine Dowd, she and Alva were granted a divorce in 1879 and on the 1880 census she is living with relatives and the census also confirms she is divorced. There are no children listed with her on the 1880 census so I am thinking they didn't have any. If you would like anymore info on the Dowd line let me know. Joyce