Hi, Katie.  Very much, in my opinion; genealogy is the study of ancestral
families of any age and place, and surely finding her at that institution
explained her absence from the census rolls and revealed the reason for the
long periods (1862-1896) when she seemed to have been absent from all family
records and anecdotes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Katie Holland [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:44 PM
To: Paul Drake
Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29

but, Paul, what has this got to do with genealogy?


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	From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]>
	Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
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	Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:37 PM
	
	
	Thanks, Ms. OBrion.  I feel that recognition, treatments and results
of
	mental problems (or any other serious illness) are vital to
understanding
	our ancestors and their lives.  My own G-Gmother was committed three
times
	over 30 years, the last commitment having been for life, and the
diagnoses
	were "mania" in one entry and "some lactation problem in
	another.  Was she
	committed by her family?  By a physician? Was she nutty or did harm
to
	anyone, thereby bringing about the "mania?  What in the world did
	"some
	lactation problem" tell us about her life, actions and later
temperament??
	
	
	Paul
	
	-----Original Message-----
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	[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Katie Holland
	Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:26 PM
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	Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
	
	I'm not sure what this has to do with genealogy?
	
	
	Katie Holland
	
	
	--- On Thu, 10/23/08, Catherine OBrion
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	From: Catherine OBrion <[log in to unmask]>
	Subject: Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29
	To: [log in to unmask]
	Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 1:25 PM
	
	Free Event
	
	Wednesday, October 29
	Book Talk:
	The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to
Rid the
	World of Mental Illness
	Time: Noon
	Place: Library of Virginia Conference Rooms, 800 East Broad Street,
Richmond
	Author Jack El-Hai will discuss his groundbreaking new biography of
	neurologist
	and psychiatrist Walter Freeman, featured in the PBS documentary The

	Lobotomist. El-Hai, whose work is based in part on archival research
in
	Freeman's personal papers at the George Washington University, takes
	readers
	into one of the darkest chapters of American medicine-the desperate
attempt
	to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need
of help
	during the middle decades of the 20th century, before the
introduction of
	effective psychiatric medication in the 1950s. A book sale and
signing will
	follow the talk.
	
	This event is sponsored by the Library of Virginia Foundation, VCU
	Libraries,
	and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference in celebration of
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