This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0V.2ADE/2235.2.2.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello. I just wanted to tell you that is one of the nicest and most honest statements I think you could have written. I know a dear little man whose mother was there from the time he was a small child. He wrote some of the kindest words about her. He understood that if she could have come along later in time that she could have been helped. There were no medications and no understandings of how to help mentally ill people at that time. They were called crazy and locked away. That man's mother had descendents who became lawyers, teachers, and very respectable people. But all his life the man lived with the shame of where his mother was during the time of his childhood. Thank God for the improvements medical care has made during the last 100 years.