Hi! What an interesting web site! Can you imagine, receiving a postcard from the KKK State Hospital! There is a link to the old state hospital in Indianapolis, now partially demolished. According to info on the (Indiana) Central State Hospital web page, the Indiana archives has files of commitment records, etc. and a person can contact the Archives and order a photocopy of the patient's 'complete record'. This seems incredible. (See web page re info on patient files below.) http://www.state.in.us/icpr/webfile/csh_aiin/csh_data.html Illinois State Archives may also offer this service? Joanne in CA ---------------- -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Gocken <cwixgo@capstonebank.com> To: ILFORD-L@rootsweb.com <ILFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, October 07, 1999 9:23 PM Subject: [ILFORD-L] Eastern IL Hospital >This was passed to me and I thought others might be interested. Lee, >consider a link? > > http://members.dencity.com/asylums/index.html SNIP SNIP