My husband is trying to locate his birth mother whom he has never seen. Since time is NOT on our side, we have been making yearly trips to the Buffalo area to search old records, etc. If living, she would be approximately 86 years of age. Since she was an ONLY child born to an ONLY child, we are having a hard time locating her....not to mention that finding an elderly woman can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Since she was mentally disabled, she lived with her mother and her mother's second husband after giving birth to my husband and placing him in Father Baker's home. That was about two months after she divorced his birth father. Long story, but his father eventually picked him up from Father Bakers at the age of 16 months, when he remarried and his new wife insisted on raising ALL of his children. The latest bit of information that we've received is that the state placed his birth mother in a nursing home when her mother died in 1988. She would have been about 66 at that time. Family information that were lucky enough to recently receive is that the nursing home could have been located at the corner of Main and Kensington in Buffalo. IF she was issued a Social Security card from the state, we don't know for sure what name she used...her maiden name, her married (& then divorced name), or if she might have assumed her step father's surname, since she lived with them for over 40 years. We have found evidence from searching city directories and censuses that she used several of these over the years. My question is, does anyone on this list recollect a nursing home in the general area of Main and Kensington in 1988? I'm aware that the Kensington Hwy was built and might have forced many businesses to relocate. I'm not certain of exactly when that occurred, though. We are originally from the western NY area (Lockport), but aren't very familiar with the Buffalo part of that area. If you might have a clue as to what nursing home might have been there, I would love to hear from you. Does anyone know if there is a mailing list for just nursing homes on Rootsweb? Annette in Ocala, FL