Report of Divorce Indexes are a compilation of the Reports of Divorce Decrees or Annulment to Marriage sent to our office by the district clerk's office in the county where the court decree was filed. Report of Divorce Indexes are prepared by the Vital Statistics Unit may contain data entry errors or misreported data, and users of the indexes may discover misspelled names, incorrect dates, or missing data. Ongoing corrections are made to the original record, therefore these indexes may not reflect the most recent information.
Report of Divorce Indexes are not themselves legal documents and are prepared only as aids in locating the County where the original divorce decree is filed. If you believe that an original divorce decree contains an error, you may contact the District Clerks' office in the county where the original divorce decree is filed.
The files below are in compressed format. Click on a year to download an index file for that year.
Our Report of Divorce Indexes cannot be considered comprehensive.
To receive information on divorces prior to 1968, or if you cannot locate a divorce in our indexes, you must contact the District Clerks' office in which the divorce occurred.
The uncompressed files will have the following characteristics:
- Filename format: divyy.txt where "yy" represents year of divorce application
- File size: 3 - 12 MB
- Approximate download time: 4 to 13 Minutes connected at 28.8k bps
- File type: ASCII, tab delimited
Field Contents
(In Order from Left to Right)
| DIVORCE INDEXES 1968 - 2007† |
| File Number |
| Husband's Name (Last, First MI) |
| Husband's Age |
| Wife's Name (first MI) |
| Wife's Age |
| Number of Children Under 18 |
| Marriage Date |
| Divorce Date |
| County Code Where Divorce Occurred |
| County Name Where Divorce Occurred |
The divorce files are quite large ranging between 50,000 to 87,000 records. Many programs, (i.e., some spreadsheets and word processors) have a limit to the number of records that can be viewed at a time. Please make sure the software you use to view these records is capable of loading large numbers of records.
You will need a ZIP file extractor to open the index files. Downloaded WinZip ZIP file extractor if you do not already have a ZIP file extractor on your computer to open zip files.
† The format of each file may vary depending on the year.
| 2008, file size 5.4 MB (.zip) |
| 2007, file size 2.3 MB (.zip) |
2006, file size 2.4 MB (.zip) |
2005, file size 2.4 MB (.zip) |
2004, file size 2.5 MB (.zip) |
| 2003, file size 2.7 MB (.zip) |
2002, file size 2.5MB (.zip) |
2001, file size 2.2MB (.zip) |
2000, file size 2.2MB (.zip) |
| 1999, file size 2.1MB (.zip) |
1998, file size 2.3MB (.zip) |
1997, file size 2.5MB (.zip) |
1996, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
| 1995, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
1994, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
1993, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1992, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
| 1991, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1990, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1989, file size 2.5MB (.zip) |
1988, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
| 1987, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1986, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
1985, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
1984, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
| 1983, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1982, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
1981, file size 2.7MB (.zip) |
1980, file size 2.6MB (.zip) |
| 1979, file size 2.5MB (.zip) |
1978, file size 2.3MB (.zip) |
1977, file size 2.2MB (.zip) |
1976, file size 2.2MB (.zip) |
| 1975, file size 2.1MB (.zip) |
1974, file size 1.9MB (.zip) |
1973, file size 1.7MB (.zip) |
1972, file size 1.6MB (.zip) |
| 1971, file size 1.5MB (.zip) |
1970, file size 1.4MB (.zip) |
1969, file size 1.2MB (.zip) |
1968, file size 0.9MB (.zip) |
Report of Divorce Indexes before 1968 are not available due to the fact that Divorce Applications were not filed with the State offices until 1968.
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