Hello, Someone just wrote concerning types of information posted on Stark Co. Probate Index, and mentioned marriages, deaths and even insanity commitments. My question is this: I tried to locate information on a civil commitment, and according to several typed pages distributed at the Stark Library, civil commitment records are held by the Akron Library. When I checked with the Akron Library, they had no idea where the records were. A spokesman at the library told me the commitment records were held by the Probate Court. The Stark Co. Probate Court advised me that all these type records are permanently sealed. The record that I was looking for was dated 1900. What options, do I have for identifying and determining if the person committed was my relative? Or, do I have any? Do sealed records ever have a time limit, in the state of Ohio? Thanks for any help, Dorothy