100 years to get a divorce record.......That is absurd. NY is living in the dark ages in regard to the release of records. -----Original Message----- From: Bobbi DeOliveira via <[email protected]> To: kathleen.scarlett.ohara <[email protected]> Cc: NYC-Roots-L <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Jul 26, 2015 10:49 pm Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NYC Divorce Records/Italian Citizenship He is out of luck for the divorce records for another four years. See the following for more information. http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/1jd/supctmanh/county_clerk_records.shtml On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 09:15 PM, Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via wrote: > I'm helping a family member apply for Italian dual citizenship by > descent. > He should be eligible, but I recently encountered a situation which > makes > me afraid that our application will not be successful. The applicant's > grandfather (the immigrant in the line), through whom he should derive > citizenship, was divorced in Brooklyn in 1919. This was prior to the > marriage from which the applicant descends. The Italian consulate > requires > birth, marriage, death, and divorce records for everyone in the line > of > descent from the immigrant. > > 1. Am I correct in my understanding that since both parties to this > divorce > are long-since deceased, there is simply no way to access the divorce > record? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Their theory is to protect the privacy of the divorce from the couple's children. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Pieterse 100 years to get a divorce record.......That is absurd. NY is living in the dark ages in regard to the release of records.