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*Title:* San Francisco Call *Available online:* 1 April 1890 - 31 December 1913 (8649 issues) "E" On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:38 AM, IslandRoutes <[email protected]>wrote: > I have a little experience with this for San Francisco. Yes, Catholics >> did get divorced prior to 1900. I have a French relative who was Roman >> Catholic. She came to SF in 1880, married and had a kid, and then the guy >> deserted her. I was able to find record of the divorce based on desertion >> in the SF Call newspaper in 1884. >> > > I don't know if the church condoned it, but it happened most assuredly. I > do not believe they were involved in any way. As for official records, > California did not start official reporting until 1905. So, the records > you seek will be at the city or county level. San Francisco did have > divorce records, but I believe the earthquake and fire wiped them out. > Newspapers can fill the gap as they had to be publicly reported. > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
