Korean-American adoptee shares story and 8-year roots search

‘You will never find him.’ It wasn’t like what you see on TV. 7 years later, I saw a match.’: Adoptee searches for birth parents with genetic genealogy, helps others like her

This is a story close to home. These are my parents. I'm not only an adoptee but also the founder of this page, I'm Adopted. Over the years, we’ve shared many stories from adoptees around the world, and as we grow, so does this community. In this clip, they reflect on what it was like when I began the search for my birth parents. I was adopted from an orphanage in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in 1994, along with my brother. This is part of a special episode in my An Adoption Story series, where they wer