So, You Have Been Notified of a Match to Your Birth Family In China, What Comes Next?
If you are reading this, you may have received a link to this blog in an email notifying you that you have been matched to a birth relative living in China. If so, congratulations. We understand that you have a ton of questions, so we have set up this blog to provide you with answers. So, let's start with, Who is DNAConnect.Org? Brian and Longlan Stuy started researching the origins of Chinese adoptees as soon as they met in 2002. For the past two decades, they have travelled all around China collecting finding ads, visiting and filming orphanages, and collecting as much information as possible to assist adoptees in learning about their origins. They started a research firm, Research-China.Org , to provide this information to adoptees and their families. They also have three adoptive daughters from China (the photo on the left is of our family, taken at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 at the premier of "One Child Nation".) We started a public blog in 2005 to help educ...