You must have been in the city courthouse. Doesn't the divorce say where it was filed? Bev ========Original Message======== Subj: [VAROOTS] Re: Question for those who live around Richmond etc. Date: 9/13/2003 3:51:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:jtennent@starpower.net">jtennent@starpower.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com">VAROOTS-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) If Henrico built a courthouse outside of downtown Richmond on Parham Road then what is the building not too many blocks from the archives. Is that the City of Richmond Courthouse? I went there about a year ago and found a copy of a divorce record from 1906. I don't think those folks are used to people want documents that far back as they seemed surprised that I would want a divorce record going that far back. I do have to say when I got the file I hit a gold mine. It had the couples marriage certificate, letters from the wife's boyfriend and letters of from folks testify as to what a good person the husband was and the wife was bad. It shocked me as to some the words those folks used back then. Janet Tennent Kensington, Maryland ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237