I think that only his closest relative can foster a search for information about him. You can write to Chester Mental Health Center, Chester, IL 62233 telling them what you want. They will probably send you papers to fill out to get more information. If you have any questions, ask and I will talk to someone about your need. Velda Wittenbrink Moore vel_chick@verizon.net http://www.larrett.com/velda/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/

Velda, I was just checking my mail and saw this posting. I am a RN at a state mental health hospital. I can tell you that it will be impossible to obtain records from any mental health hospital now. Since Hippa was instituted it has closed a lot of avenues in the health care field. The system we had worked fine, but goverment had to overdo it cause more paperwork and money to be spent. The Mental Health Code is even more ridgid then Hippa about patient medical records. We can not even tell anyone who calls to check on family they are even there without a release of information from the patient. One can check the census records for the time the patient may have been there. You can also check the court house for commitment papers and check the death records if the person died there. I have located persons in old state aslyums by being lucky enough to find them in the census for the town/county the aslyum located. Many now go under a state mental health hospital/ state psychatric hospital. Randolph co. is Chester Mental Health and operates on the same guide lines the hospital does where I work. I hope this helps in these kinds of searches. It us my personal feeling that family members should be allowed access to committement diagnosis as well as any family members listed. However my opinion does not count for much. lol.......... I have been following this list for awhile now and I subscribed to search for family information related to Randolph co. The Rhodes of Randolph Co. census of 1860. Oriethel Rhodes and Thomas Rhodes both listed as physcians. The whole family listed and their place of birth, year of birth all match up with the 1850 census in Wisconsin. They were of the Stonebridge Indian tribe of Mass. which part of them went to Wisconsin to the reservation there. That is where I found them in the 1850 census. I believe these people to be my ancesters due to the matching census information. Their ancesteral grandmother was an Indian Docteress as well as her brother, Thomas and Rhoda Fuller. Rhoda married Joeseph Rhodes in Mass or New York. Anyway, Oriethel Rhodes remains in the Census records as a physcian and right now I can't remember the town. It is not to far from Chester. Some of the children went to St. Louis, MO to work in the early 1900's. I am wondering if there is any information about Oriethel Rhodes in you Society? I have a File I can send you if you are interested. I would be interested in hearing form others with like family interest. Sincerely Kay James Jonesboro, IL -----Original Message----- From: "Velda Moore" <Vel_Chick@verizon.net> To: <ilrandol@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:44:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [ILRANDOL] Chester Asylum > I think that only his closest relative can foster a search for > information > about him. You can write to Chester Mental Health Center, Chester, IL > 62233 > telling them what you want. They will probably send you papers to fill > out > to get more information. > > If you have any questions, ask and I will talk to someone about your > need. > > Velda Wittenbrink Moore > vel_chick@verizon.net > http://www.larrett.com/velda/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILRANDOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message