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What should I do?

I am 49 yrs old and my sister is 54 years old. In 1968, when my sister was 20-21 years old she gave a new born daughter up for adoption. Recently her daughter contacted me. She told me that she had hired a private investigator to find her b-mother. Somehow my sister found out about the search and called the agency that had handled the adoption. She told the agency several details about herself and said she did not want to know anything about her daughter. Her daughter told me she accepted that and put the issue to rest. But the daughter began to have medical problems and felt she needed to find her b-mother and get her family medical history. This is wwhere I came in. I gave the daughter as much medical history as I could and told her I would send her pictures of our family, including her mother. She still would love to meet her mother and our mother(her grandmother) and says she holds no resentment to my sister at all. The daughter has a two year old son.

Though my sister and I live in the same city we do not have much contact with each other. There are no hard feelings, it is just that we are not close.

Also the birth record was sealed at birth. No one other than my sister knows the father's identity. She told the agency that the father had been killed in a car crash. This might not be true. In fact, when the agency was trying to find the birth certificate, the law firm that had been retained 32 years ago to have the record sealed intervened and reiterated that the only person able to sign a release was my sister and she refused.Knowing that my sister and I are not really close and the fact that the identity of the father could be a problem how do I approach my sister? Do I ask her to meet me (suspicious) and if she does should I have pictures of her daughter and grandson? Or should I tell her over the phone and give more control of the situation. She is in her second marriage and her husband is about 68 yrs old. She has never had any other children.