NYS divorce reco9rds ar sealed for 100 years, to date. -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor via <[email protected]> To: Bobbi DeOliveira <[email protected]> Cc: NYC-Roots-L <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 8:05 am Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NYC Divorce Records/Italian Citizenship Honestly, that's better than I'd hoped for. I was under the impression that they'd never be available. Thanks! On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Bobbi DeOliveira <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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