In a message dated 8/22/2005 7:15:24 AM US Eastern Standard Time, gilburns@aol.com writes: I also have interest in this topic from the lunacy standpoint - I cannot find death info for a distant great uncle who was listed as insane on census records from 1850 thru 1880. My interest is also regional, since the families he did and could have lived with were on both sides of the river. Hi Mark, My genealogist found the record in the index of a court book in Champaign County, Ohio, but the clerk wouldn't let her see it. I have no idea what is in it or what happened. You could try to find a court "lunacy" record at the courthouses in Hamilton Co., Ohio and over the river in Kentucky. Has anyone heard of a "lunacy" record? I'm so curious about this I can't stand it! By the way, I did find the death certificate and one-line obit for this ancestor: He committed suicide at his home. I wonder if all suicides had a court "lunacy" record? Maybe that is what the record contains. The genealogist did not give me the date of the record, but my ancestor died in 1884. Sincerely, Susan E. Davis