Charlotte, You might check to see where the State hospital records are stored in KY also they might have had a court hearing to be put into the hospital. We did this in Indiana, and found all the records and burial of my mother's grandfather, who all the other researchers thought he was buried in his plot in Harmony, IN. Can't tell you how happy all of us were when we got his information. Eileen -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [KYJEFFER] Asylum Question Can someone please tell me how they determined that someone was a lunatic in the 1870's? Was there a set of standards that they used or what? I have a relative who was committed to the 3rd Lunatic Asylum in the 1870's and it said that he was insane and that his father was insane too. Thank you, Charlotte Miller _http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlotteamiller/index.html_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlotteamiller/index.html) _http://www.geocities.com/c81371/index.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/c81371/index.html) _http://www.geocities.com/charlotte7274/index.html_ (http://www.geocities.com/charlotte7274/index.html) ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== http://www.usgenweb.org Home of the oldest and largest volunteer not-for-profit genealogy organization on the web. ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx