Disabled people - Airbrushed out?

[familydar]

I want to get hold of the asylum records for my 2xgt's daughter with the epilepsy but she comes under the 100 year rule.

Sometimes records can be made available to family members.  I managed to get some 1930s asylum admission & discharge records from LMA, sketchy and there was a fee but they made sense of the death cert.

Jane :-)

[aghadowey]

I want to get hold of the asylum records for my 2xgt's daughter with the epilepsy but she comes under the 100 year rule.

Sometimes records can be made available to family members.  I managed to get some 1930s asylum admission & discharge records from LMA, sketchy and there was a fee but they made sense of the death cert.

Jane :-)

I got records from asylum for my grandfather's aunt who died in 1950s which included details about her son (injured in WWI), addresses for two other sons, etc.

[Ayashi]

I think I read that you have to be able to prove your relationship. In my case I'm missing a link in the chain because mum refuses to let me have a copy of her birth certificate. I don't think I have their marriage either.

[aghadowey]

I didn't have to prove anything. Rang up to ask about available records and was told I had to put my request in writing. Wrote a letter explaining that I was looking for information on grandfather's aunt for medical reasons. A few weeks later a doctor from the hospital rang, read out the notes and explained what much of it meant in modern terms and the context of the period.

[groom]

I think I read that you have to be able to prove your relationship. In my case I'm missing a link in the chain because mum refuses to let me have a copy of her birth certificate. I don't think I have their marriage either.

Can't you get that from the GRO?

[Ayashi]

The marriage yes, but mum was not born in this country.

I might look into it again at some point. It's certainly something on the To Do list.

[pinefamily]

I think the Victorian era saw more "disabilities" hidden away/institutionalized. Perhaps that is what the OP is getting at.

[Mike in Cumbria]

I think perhaps Zetlander need to come back and explain what he/she meant by the original post. As many have said already, I see no evidence that family historians are airbrushing people out of their family trees, but perhaps that isn't what was meant.

[brigidmac]

i wasnt asked for proof either for my grandmothers birth fathers records 1924
from merthry tidvil GRO