I am really touched by this. I certanly pray something shakes out for you. Perhaps you could sign a release? One of the things they must be concerned about is liability. Maybe try a local Legal Attorney Service that could direct you to someone. Where I live they call it the Lawyer Referral Service. They might pay more attention to a letter from a lawyer, perhaps accompanied by a signed release. Keep at it. Kathleen Cindy Crawford wrote: >Hello List > >I am hoping someone in a legal capacity can help me with a question on >Nursing Home Records in Butler County. Several yeas ago there was a Judge >who told me if the nursing home was privately owned they could give me >information if they wanted to but state or government run homes were >different and had a different set of laws to follow. > > > >Here is my problem, I had a great, great Aunt who was in a nursing home in >Butler County, OH. She died in 1994. She never knew any of her family, >she had been in institutions for her entire life. My mother never even knew >she existed until we started the genealogy hunt together and found her birth >record and some other records to show us that she belonged to our family. >That was in 1996. We went to this nursing home the lady pulled the records >out and let me see that they had them, the file was probably 8 inches thick. >She wouldn’t give me any information out of them. My Aunt never married, >she had epilepsy and they thought she was crazy and she lived in the Orient >in Columbus and in many foster care homes until she was placed in this >nursing home when the Orient closed down. Now she was the youngest of this >family besides a brother. My grandmother and 3 other sisters and the boy >were all put in orphans homes in 1906 when their father died. Now my mother >would be the niece of this lady and my mother and all her siblings are gone. >My grandmother always wanted to find all her siblings she found the 3 >sisters but never found the brother. I have since found where he went. He >was sent to WV to a family there. Now I know the records for my Aunt in >this nursing home will give me answers to a lot of questions because I have >also talked with one family that they would let her visit in Columbus. > > > >I need to know if there is a legal way to be able to see these records? >There is no one left but me to care. If the boy were still alive he would >be 106 years old. All siblings have died, she never married, there are no >children of hers, my mother’s entire family are gone. I don’t see how Hippa >Privacy can come into play since I have asked many times since 1996 for the >information. So I am hoping someone can tell me how I can legally get >information for genealogical purposes only and to fulfill a wish of my >grandmother of finding all siblings. > > > >Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give. > > > >Cindy > > > >

Hello List Thanks for the replies. I did use an attorney several years ago to write them a letter. They never even answered. I just don't understand why they won't help. Almost feel like something is being hid. I just know my answers are in there. It kills me because my mom and my sister went with me to the nursing home and since then I lost my mom, and my sister and a brother within 6 weeks of each other to cancer. There is no one left of this family except myself and a couple of cousins who are also interested. I will try the Probate office in Butler County..that sounds like a good idea. Like I said, I did talk to a Judge of Butler years ago and he told me that the home being Private they could give me the information. Cindy -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Dewey [mailto:kdewey@sbceo.org] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:41 PM To: OHBUTLER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OHBUTLER-L] Help with Nursing Home Question I am really touched by this. I certanly pray something shakes out for you. Perhaps you could sign a release? One of the things they must be concerned about is liability. Maybe try a local Legal Attorney Service that could direct you to someone. Where I live they call it the Lawyer Referral Service. They might pay more attention to a letter from a lawyer, perhaps accompanied by a signed release. Keep at it. Kathleen Cindy Crawford wrote: >Hello List > >I am hoping someone in a legal capacity can help me with a question on >Nursing Home Records in Butler County. Several yeas ago there was a Judge >who told me if the nursing home was privately owned they could give me >information if they wanted to but state or government run homes were >different and had a different set of laws to follow. > > > >Here is my problem, I had a great, great Aunt who was in a nursing home in >Butler County, OH. She died in 1994. She never knew any of her family, >she had been in institutions for her entire life. My mother never even knew >she existed until we started the genealogy hunt together and found her birth >record and some other records to show us that she belonged to our family. >That was in 1996. We went to this nursing home the lady pulled the records >out and let me see that they had them, the file was probably 8 inches thick. >She wouldn’t give me any information out of them. My Aunt never married, >she had epilepsy and they thought she was crazy and she lived in the Orient >in Columbus and in many foster care homes until she was placed in this >nursing home when the Orient closed down. Now she was the youngest of this >family besides a brother. My grandmother and 3 other sisters and the boy >were all put in orphans homes in 1906 when their father died. Now my mother >would be the niece of this lady and my mother and all her siblings are gone. >My grandmother always wanted to find all her siblings she found the 3 >sisters but never found the brother. I have since found where he went. He >was sent to WV to a family there. Now I know the records for my Aunt in >this nursing home will give me answers to a lot of questions because I have >also talked with one family that they would let her visit in Columbus. > > > >I need to know if there is a legal way to be able to see these records? >There is no one left but me to care. If the boy were still alive he would >be 106 years old. All siblings have died, she never married, there are no >children of hers, my mother’s entire family are gone. I don’t see how Hippa >Privacy can come into play since I have asked many times since 1996 for the >information. So I am hoping someone can tell me how I can legally get >information for genealogical purposes only and to fulfill a wish of my >grandmother of finding all siblings. > > > >Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give. > > > >Cindy > > > > ==== OHBUTLER Mailing List ==== Search for Butler County family names ~ http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/surindx.pl?site=OHBUTLER2 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/320 - Release Date: 4/20/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/320 - Release Date: 4/20/2006