Source Information

Ancestry.com. Iowa, U.S., Divorce Index, 1992-2008 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Iowa Divorce Index, 1992-2008. Iowa Bureau of Vital Records, Des Moines, Iowa.

About Iowa, U.S., Divorce Index, 1992-2008

This database is an index to more than 65 thousand divorces that were filed in Iowa from 1992-2008. Information that may be found in this database includes:

  • Husband's name
  • Wife's name
  • Divorce date
  • Divorce county

The information found in this database can be used to locate your relative in the original records that this index references. Usually more information is available in the records themselves than is found in an index. For example, divorce records may list marriage information, birth information, or the cause for divorce in addition to the information provided in this index.

Divorce records are generally available in Iowa from 1880. The Iowa Bureau of Vital Records keeps an index to statewide divorces, though original records are held by the county where the divorce was granted.