Category: search and reunion
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Maeil Broadcasting Network (MBN: The Journey of Overseas Adoptees Searching for Their Roots
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After 5 decades in Sweden, 9 Korean adoptees to visit Gwangju seeking their birth families
By Kang Hyun-seok Link to story
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MSN: Colombia’s ‘lost children’ remain open wound 40 years after deadly volcanic eruption
Link to story By Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA (Reuters) -Maria Gladys Primo cannot hold back tears as she recalls the night of November 13, 1985, when she last saw her two young children, before a landslide of mud, rocks and trees triggered by the eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano swept away her home. Primo…
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Women abandoned as a baby in Hong Kong searched ‘for years’ before finding lost family
By Rachael Davis and Laura McKenna Link to story. This story includes numerous links and was originally written for the MyHeritage DNA website. I excerpted the article to focus on Rachel’s story.
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Notre Dame Magazine: Making sense of identity
A sister I never knew upended my understanding of myself, my birth family and my Korean heritage. By Darragh Hannan Link to story
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WGTC: She just wanted a little sister: TikTok reunites two Colombian adoptees raised on different continents
By Fred Onyango Link to story Someone call Disney and Lindsay Lohan — the plot for The Parent Trap remake has practically written itself. Image via Instagram/rachellannaa A wholesome story about half-sisters reuniting from almost 4,000 miles apart played out in front of the entire internet — and it was all thanks to TikTok. In 1998,…
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Marketplace: For Chinese adoptees, the cost of finding answers is high.
Birth family search is becoming increasingly common with new technologies. By Katie Reuther Link to story
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Newsweek: Woman Abandoned as Baby Gave Up on Finding Birth Family, Until She Got Text
By Jack Beresford Link to story
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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
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