Louisiana Death Index help needed

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I need some help (please!).

When I was a member of ancestry.com I had a chance to review the Louisiana Death Index.

In the year 1928 (I believe it was) there is a death that shows up something like this:

... (surname).

No first name no other information except the surname.

Well as things go, I have a copy of an interview that was done by my foster aunt of her late uncle's wife in the late 1980s on cassette tape. In this interview, said wife of my late foster uncle mentions that my mother (who was adopted) was one of two girls that were adopted, not just one (my mother) as I had always thought was the case.

However, photographs of my late mother as a young child/toddler are dated 1925 and often that is scratched out and the year 1928 is printed on it (or vice-versa). Who is this in these pictures? Is it my mother or another child that perhaps died not long afterwards?

I am wondering if this entry I saw in the Louisiana Death Index was the other female child said to have been adopted by this family of this same surname.

If anyone has access to these records (someone in Louisiana would be GREAT if there is someone around here that can perhaps check in some way other than ancestry.com) I would really appreciate it as the info. on ancestry.com is of no great use to me except for the fact that this solitary entry does in fact exist.

Please PM me if you think you can assist and I can provide you with the surname which I am not posting here as said foster aunt is still living and in major denial about the events surrounding the adoption of these two female children one of which was my late mother.

Why she is like this I'll never know, but I do respect her privacy in any event being she is still living and has several great grandchildren as well.

I believe they were living in Caddo Parish in Shreveport, Louisiana at this time (however, anything is possible). I have no idea what the first name of the other female child that apparently existed at one time was but I'm thinking said child may be the other child that was adopted and said child died in 1928 if my memory of what I saw in the online Louisiana Death Index is correct.

If anyone can check for me in some way (need someone in Louisiana to help if at all possible) it would be very helpful as my late mother's past and true identity still remains a bit of a mystery in many ways. I am well aware of the fact that many records in Louisiana have been lost, especially old records ... burned in fires is the word and Katrina sure did not help!

Thanks very much.

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1. PM just sent

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2. Hello again and thank you!

Last edited Sun Nov 23, 2014, 08:28 PM - Edit history (1)

I received a couple of replies to this query.

I'm beginning to think that I'll never know who child #2 was.

I suppose I am lucky to have ever found out who my mother's real parents were.

Her grandfather was this man here:

http://preservationlongview.com/campbell_home/

Being he was a judge and his brother was the governor of Texas around the same time, it is no wonder that this was covered up supposedly forever. Mother's grandfather is the picture at the above link favors my late brother that passed away at the age of 42 years some time ago. Was very sad needless to say.

Thanks again fellow searchers!