This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wS.2ADIAE/361.1.1.1 Message Board Post: This is right. I had contacted the Western State Hospital about getting the maiden name of a relative who died there in 1940. I gave them all my info and said I just wanted the maiden name. I was told I needed a court order. The relative was 87 years old and was only there(according to the death certificate) when her spouse died 10 months earlier and she was diagnosed with senility. You can go to Christian County, Ky. on the search engine and get Western Ky. State Hospital and they do have some info on early employees and residents. Pam