I guess we will have to agree to disagree. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Katie Holland [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:16 PM To: Paul Drake Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29 Thanks, not trying to be impolite, but I don't think what your say here has anything to do with my question. I still don't think that such a "talk" has any relevance to genealogy; the talk is about a book on the history of lobotomies. --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 3:13 PM 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? --- On Thu, 10/23/08, Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Paul Drake <[log in to unmask]> Subject: RE: [VA-ROOTS] Book Talk Wednesday, Oct. 29 To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] 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----- From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Katie Holland Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:26 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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 Archives Month in Virginia. To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html