@BillieBun Hee yeah I have an account already - this is where I first learned about the lack of documentation!

Holy rusted metal, what on earth is up with folks soliciting Alfred tonight??

@PamsMyth 1922-ish. Grandpa was born in March of 1923, so the split was the year before. That's interesting re: proof of divorce - I wasn't aware of that, tho' it makes sense.

@kaylcrawford Yeah I've wondered if maybe she went to Kansas or Wyoming. Figured I'd start with CO, and expand to another state if I didn't find anything.

@BillieBun Oh, that's a good call. Thank you!

@Kimmycott Yeah, later records are easier to find. 1920s tho', that's a century ago! Love the idea re: NARA or the LoC. Thank you!

So I've always wondered what the story was there. Did great-gran have an affair with my great-gpa? What was the reason for the divorce? I don't think no-fault divorce was a thing in the 1920s in Colorado, but I don't know for sure - I've even had trouble finding info on the laws from back then.

They settled in Cripple Creek, where my grandpa was born less than a year later.

Family has always talked about great-gran getting a divorce & remarrying... but I can't find paperwork for either the divorce or the remarriage. No Decree of Dissolution, no marriage license, nothing. I have my grandpa's birth certificate, along with other papers related to my great-grands: birth certificates, military service records, that sort of thing. But on the divorce? Nothing.

Great-gma worked in a soda fountain/cafe attached to the movie theater, & sold ice cream & treats to moviegoers.

Turns out one of those moviegoers must've been the handsome young butcher's apprentice, a blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow closer in age to great-gma. We don't know the details, but she came to Stratton with one husband & left with another: my great-gpa.

The story is intriguing: great-gma was from a farming family & had several sisters. When she was 19, she married a man about a decade her senior. Several years into it, they had a son (my grandpa's older half-brother). Somewhere in there, one of great-gma's sisters married into a wealthy ranching family & great-gma moved to Stratton, CO, to be closer to her sisters.

Hey, does anybody know how or where I can find a copy of an old divorce decree from Colorado?

One of my great-grandmothers divorced her first husband to marry my great-grandpa, but I haven't been able to find the divorce papers. #familytree #geneaology

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Holy Noah's Ark, Batman, it's *really* comin' down out there. Major summer rainfall.

It's a lovely rainy day, but it's also kind of gross & humid.

It's a lovely rainy day today. Smells like earth, salt water, fresh rain.

@NorthernInvader I dunno, when Ferris Bueller's buddy Cameron was captain of the Enterprise-B, he sucked pretty bad. Kirk was somethin' else tho'.

A fave Star Trek meme.

@KodoAndSangha Thanks. Me too, sometimes at least. I'm furious today.

@TheresaVermont Thanks. I know there's a term for it, I just can't remember it.

And the irony is, nobody really WANTS to know what #depression "looks like": people really don't want to deal with someone who's a total downer. They don't want to see sadness or low mood or someone who can't cope from day to day with the struggles #depression entails. It's too inconvenient or upsetting or disruptive for them. So I dunno about anybody else, but I got REEEEEAAAALLLY good at hiding it.