Tennessee Divorce Records: Difference between revisions
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A source for early Tennessee divorces is: | A source for early Tennessee divorces is: | ||
*Bamman, Gale Williams. ''Tennessee Divorces, 1797 to 1858: Taken from 750 Legislative Petitions and Acts''. Nashville, Tennessee: G.W. Bamman, 1985. (Family History Library book | *Bamman, Gale Williams. ''Tennessee Divorces, 1797 to 1858: Taken from 750 Legislative Petitions and Acts''. Nashville, Tennessee: G.W. Bamman, 1985. (Family History Library book {{FHL|401184|title-id|disp=976.8 P2b}}.) This book contains abstracts of divorce decrees in alphabetical order by the name of the person requesting the divorce. It indexes every name. | ||
Legislative petitions represent only a small number of the divorces requested. Most went through the superior, circuit, and chancery courts. | Legislative petitions represent only a small number of the divorces requested. Most went through the superior, circuit, and chancery courts. | ||