Join us as Janice Lovelace presents "Lunacy and Asylums: Mental Health in the 19th Century."
Was an ancestor committed to an asylum? Was someone enumerated as ‘lunatic, imbecile or incompetent” on a census? Who was committed and why? Are there records you can access? Learn about mental health treatment in the 1800s.
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