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Geneology "amateur psychiatry" in census!
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 240588" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I wonder what they did with that information? Back then, many families tended to "hide away" a relative that was mentally ill, or even suspected of being mentally ill. </p><p> </p><p>I LOVE poking around in old stuff like that! A friend of mine had told me about her great-grandfather(?) who had been a doctor in a small town near here at about that same time period, just after the Civil War. I started surfing around and came up with undertaker and funeral home records from long, long ago for that little town! Kind of gruesome but fascinating to see what people died from back then! Lots of very young people, lots of small children, young women who had died in childbirth, men who died in every conceivable type of farm accident.</p><p> </p><p>I always thought it would be neat if you could find some of the old records from Ellis Island and dig through them. From what I understand, they made quick judgements like that on people and deciding who could be admitted and who couldn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 240588, member: 1883"] I wonder what they did with that information? Back then, many families tended to "hide away" a relative that was mentally ill, or even suspected of being mentally ill. I LOVE poking around in old stuff like that! A friend of mine had told me about her great-grandfather(?) who had been a doctor in a small town near here at about that same time period, just after the Civil War. I started surfing around and came up with undertaker and funeral home records from long, long ago for that little town! Kind of gruesome but fascinating to see what people died from back then! Lots of very young people, lots of small children, young women who had died in childbirth, men who died in every conceivable type of farm accident. I always thought it would be neat if you could find some of the old records from Ellis Island and dig through them. From what I understand, they made quick judgements like that on people and deciding who could be admitted and who couldn't. [/QUOTE]
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