In Sandi's REV WAR APPLICATIONS post I noticed: James RADFORD was afflicted with lunacy; Would anyone be interested in sharing family skeletons like Lunacy? Maybe we can help trace it through some lines. There are many different causes of mental illness, but in our family we recently learned that we have a recessive gene that will cause severe mental retardation...or lunacy, if not identified and treated immediately and for life. This metabolic disorder is called PKU. In Butler Co., KY during the 1800s I have found descendants from the Phelps and Johnson lines who were deemed "idiots" by the Court in Butler Co., KY. I wonder if they had PKU. Anyone else curious about mental illness in your family? Mary ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Mental illness and mental retardation are not the same thing RMGalgan@aol.com wrote: In Sandi's REV WAR APPLICATIONS post I noticed: James RADFORD was afflicted with lunacy; Would anyone be interested in sharing family skeletons like Lunacy? Maybe we can help trace it through some lines. There are many different causes of mental illness, but in our family we recently learned that we have a recessive gene that will cause severe mental retardation...or lunacy, if not identified and treated immediately and for life. This metabolic disorder is called PKU. In Butler Co., KY during the 1800s I have found descendants from the Phelps and Johnson lines who were deemed "idiots" by the Court in Butler Co., KY. I wonder if they had PKU. Anyone else curious about mental illness in your family? Mary ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-CENTRAL-KENTUCKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message