This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JGB.2ACI/626.1 Message Board Post: I had a divorce in my family also and I found the date in the newspaper at the Manistee Museum. I went to the court house and they had no record of it because they had a fire and it destroyed alot of their ledgers. Everything is in handwritten ledgers. The HUGE books..... Missy