{"id":4045,"date":"2021-03-05T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/?p=4045"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:07:55","slug":"great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/news-blog\/great-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Great News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our UK HKAN Adoptees Joanna B has successfully found some of her siblings and she would like to share the process with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Year of the Ox began fireworks for FUNG Fung Yee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When I went to Hong Kong for the adoptees\u2019 gathering five years ago 2015, I requested my files from Po Leung Kuk children\u2019s home\/ Social Welfare Department\/ The International Social Services there.<\/li><li>Lots of the group were curious about their birth parents (like Claire from ITV Long Lost Family episode last month) but because I knew I had been orphaned I decided to query the whereabouts of three older siblings.<\/li><li>HK media published what information some adoptees and I had, and I left the records I accumulated with Winnie a local searcher (look4mama)<\/li><li>ISS case worker Jolian tracked my next older brother to NY 2016 whom I eventually got to meet and stay with 2017 with his Chinese wife also introduced to their grownup son who looks like me.<\/li><li>I subsequently tried The Red Cross Tracing Service for their help in finding OUR eldest two 2019 but they couldn\u2019t so I nudged Winnie again (she has been investigating lots of abandonment cases ever since the original reunion with surprising results)<\/li><li>Ultimately, she discovered BOTH brother and sister living there, with their own families ~ also the uncle that had adopted them in 1962, now\u00a090yrs\u00a0<\/li><li>Since having done the 23andMe DNA test revealing my 5th cousin match with Claire plus other distant relatives this links to Fung father\u2019s or Yau mother\u2018s relevant ancestry\u00a0.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our UK HKAN Adoptees Joanna B has successfully found some of her siblings and she would like to share the process with you. Year of the Ox began fireworks for FUNG Fung Yee When I went to Hong &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/news-blog\/great-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hkadopteesnetwork.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}