Hi Lynn,      I think in those days people didn't always file for divorse.  If her husband had died before she married for the second time she didn't really need a divorce.  I think it was not uncommon for people to remarry without a divorce.  I doubt that since if the Lancaster County Courthouse has no record of this divorce then there probably wasn't one.                                                                                                                          Jim Conestoga Area Historical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pacahs/index.htm ________________________________ From: ltguidetti <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:11:22 PM Subject: [PALANCAS] 1870s Divorce Record? Hi all - I am looking for a divorce record for Emma L. Bender and James Vogan Bare, from the 1870s.  Emma is my ggggrandmother; she is from Upper Leacock Township.  The Lancaster County courthouse doesn't have the record, although they do have divorce records for the county from 1850 on.  I have called the Upper Leacock Presby Church, and can't get hold of anyone.  That is where she and her family are buried. Any ideas where else I could look?  I am thinking Cecil County, MD as a possibility.  She did get the divorce, she is on the 1880 census as divorced, and she remarried my ggggrandfather in 1884. Thanks! Lynn ------------------------------- 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