Louisiana Adoption Record #25695

Louisiana Adoption Record: # 25695

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Melanie Fallo Smith

Adoptee's Info
Birth Name: Jimmy Wayne Blake
Adoptive Name: Blake Anthony Fallo
Date of Birth: May 24, 1940 (now 83 years old)
Gender: Male
Birth Location: New Orleans city, Orleans county, Louisiana USA

Birthmother's Info
Name: Ruby
Born: Unknown
Age at Adoptee's Birth: 19
Religion: Unknown

Birthfather's Info
Name: Unknown
Born: Unknown
Age at Adoptee's Birth: Unknown
Religion: Unknown

Born at Hospital: Mid Wife's Home On Dumaine Str
Birth Certificate:
Adoption Agency: none. Private adoption by lawyer.

Additional Info
The information above was confirmed with Social Services as what is written on record, although the adoption was deemed not entirely 'legal'. The birth mother went to a Home for Unwed Mothers in N.O. but did not want to stay and thereafter went to the mid-wife to have the baby. I am uncertain that the information is totally correct as my father has done DNA and we are not getting any matches with the Blake family and very few with Leblanc relatives. They were not required to give non-id info and did not do so. The adoption took a year to go through since the adopted father, Anthony Fallo, had an active case of TB and was being treated at a TB facility in Shreveport or Alexandria. When social services visited the home, the adopted father's brother would stand in for him so they would think that he was healthy and 'cured'. He died in 1947 when my dad was 7. He does not remember him much at all. We believe my grandmother, Nettie Schiro, knew the birth mother and possibly worked for her, or a relative thereof. So many stories we heard about my dad from cousins (adopted family) One story was that my grandmother went to New York on a train (which she did quite often on business with Maison Blanche) and came back with a baby. When my grandmother passed away in 1967, flowers came from a 'Helen Blake' of New York. The card mysteriously disappeared after the service and my father believes that his aunt took it to hide it from him. My grandmother was wealthy so she could have paid anyone to say or do what she wanted and knowing that the adoption was not 'totally' legal, I believe some of the information on the birth record was falsified.


Registered: January 23, 2014
Updated: June 3, 2019