Divorces are/were handled by the local court system. They are not filed with the vital records, but in the court records. All such records are open to the public. Merryann Palmer [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merryann http://home.earthlink.net/~themapalmer/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MIMUSKEG] Divorce books. > > > Hi All: > > I was at the county clerk's office in Muskegon the other day for some > research. I noted that there were books for births, weddings, and > deaths. My question > is if there are any books for divorces, or if there are no such books if > there is any way to search for such data. > [The problem is: Man and woman migrate from the Netherlands. They > have two > children, who move back to the Netherlands in their early > childhoods for 10 > years. The woman is not accounted for in any of the books > available at the clerk's > office or the Hackley library.] > > Thanks! > > Ed Spaans > > > ==== MIMUSKEG Mailing List ==== > Search the MIMUSKEG-L archives by going to > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl Type in > MIMUSKEG and then hit enter. After the page loads you'll be > ready to search! > >