DIVORCE RECORDS CAN WED FAMILY RESEARCHER TO VALUABLE SOURCES.(Lifestyle)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | February 11, 1999 | Copyright

Our ancestors were not perfect. How fast genealogists discover this. Warts and all, they are yours, and nothing you can do will change the past.

While most of us think of divorce as a modern-day occurrence in American society, it has been around a long time. The Puritans in early Plymouth permitted divorce. As early as 1639, in Massachusetts Bay, James Luxford's wife asked for a divorce because he already had a wife. A magistrate granted the divorce, took the woman and her children under the court's protection by seizing Luxford's property and transferred it to her. ...

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