With your support, we were able to get this beautiful story completed as part of our An Adoption Story series with I'm Adopted. Be sure to watch the full story here! Thank you!
Ian’s story will be shared with the world on the 28th of September as part of my An Adoption Story series. I follow Ian through a timeline of his life. Ian only found out he was adopted at the age of 48 during an emotional moment after his wife Leigh managed to obtain information for him. Since then, he has been piecing together his family history, his bloodline, and his Māori whakapapa (Māori genealogy). With the help of his daughter Yolande, he connects the dots to his links within his whakapapa of Te Ngākauiti.
I can’t wait to share this story as part of my series! Thank you to those who have been helping me behind the scenes to put this together, and to Ian and his family for sharing such a personal story with me. Thank you!
Thank you to many of you for your kind donations through to us at I'm Adopted. All of this helps us go a long way and we are using these donations to help us continue grow our resources (online and for our video series 'An Adoption Story'), keeping our website going, our community growing and for future events with adoptees. Thank you!
If you haven't already watched it! You can now watch the first episode for our 2024 series of An Adoption Story on YouTube! Ekaterina was adopted from Syktyvkar, Russia, at the age of three. She shares her journey from those early moments of adoption in New Zealand to discovering more about her bloodline and biological links.
Thank you to so many of you for your feedback on the story for Ekaterina!
We are now in the progress of filming the new stories for our series 'An Adoption Story' for 2024. You will be able to view these stories in full throughout the year as we release the stories one by one on YouTube. Please remember that all the stories will be shared on Alex Gilbert's YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/alexgilbert.
The series is done entirely himself. The series isn't supported by funding or sponsorship. Proceeds from our Givealittle and the Patreon for the series will be helping us continue to create this series for the global adoption community.
Thank you!
