DNA Test Helped Orphan Find Birth Family In Russia

[@alexgilbert]

Thank you for watching my show. I appreciate all of you watching these great stories. We filmed these throughout 2019 to 2021! Thank you for watching. I continue to help many more with my work in the adoption community.

[@Shining-Star-]

Followed you here. 💕💖

[@kelamram]

Oh my gosh i remember watching your story meeting your mom and dad ❤

[@deana1111]

You are doing awesome work.

[@SharonMcauley-h1w]

Thank you

[@cindiemoore2530]

Such important work you do❤

[@cindiemoore2530]

Vika’s adoptive mother was so filled with joy for her. Now she can know the love of 2 wonderful women❤

[@klk659]

I'm overwhelmed with tears of joy that her parents are so supportive and that her birth mom never wanted to give her up but being that she was so sick, it was Viktoria's only chance at survival. God blessed her in so many ways. Thank you, Lord, for this beautiful reconnection ❤

[@ElaAusDemTal]

I really liked the fact that Viktoria's adoptive parents not only kept her name but her nickname Vika as well! Your name is a big part of who you are

[@rReib_3]

Yes your name is very important. My adopted parents did not keep mine. In the process of going back to my birth name.

[@estelledossantos5661]

@rReib_3 You see, adopted parents are never your parents, your blood parents are...blood is thicker than water..!

[@glee_again2594]

@@ElaAusDemTal especially when a child is old enough to know their name. Also she has a name that we use in English. We adopted a baby from abroad and moved her first name to her middle name. She would be bullied for her given name if not. She may have been named by hospital staff where she was left and not her birth parent (parents). We love the meaning of her name and I think she is happy we kept her first name as part of her name. She is an adult now and seems to like her English name as her name and her name from her original country. Interestingly not all children are glad to get part of their birth countries name. Some want nothing to do with their birth country and even avoid people who are from their birth country. My niece adopted at 4 from China is one who has been that way. Her parents purposely had Chinese friends and exposure to help keep her native tongue and be around something “familiar”. Not sure if she was scared these people would take her back or what. Who knows what goes through a very small persons’ mind. I’ve also seen an adult change from her American name back to her S Korean name legally. Not all adoptees want their past name and some REALLY want it. Therefore adoptive parents only have 50% chance of doing what the child as an adult feels was best.

[@glee_again2594]

@@rReib_3 interesting. Were you adopted from another country? I’m glad you are able to do that and I hope your adopted parents are supportive. If my adopted daughter wanted to do that I would support her. However, it’s not guaranteed she was named by her family. Possibly by the hospital she was left at named her. But maybe for some it doesn’t matter who named them, they want that birth country connection. We did keep our adopted baby’s first name as her middle name. So she has that still. She is happy so far with her name that is part her adoptive family and part from her home country.

[@glee_again2594]

@@estelledossantos5661 what about kids who are neglected/abused by cruel blood relatives? Plenty of victims would rather call someone who cares for them and loves them properly mom and dad and evil monsters of parents. Not all blood relatives are capable of loving and being dedicated as “thicker than blood.” Adoptive parents and birth parents can be treated with equal love and connection. It doesn’t have to be one is “thicker” or “more the parent” than another.

[@AlisVolatPropiis]

31:54 even the translator is so moved by the reunion. It is so human to feel complex emotions and empathy!

[@whatamisupposedtosay1704]

as a Russian, this was so heartbreaking, though at the same time healing to watch💔 hope everything in lives of this people will be great🙏

[@khenglim]

Its so sad to see the traumas that all these children go through. Glad they are able to find some familial connections and closure regarding their roots and at the same time the love and support of their adoptive parents. I wish them well and hope they find the joy and peace within their hearts to move on.

[@cindiaker5778]

Victoria & her mom just brought tears for me....tears of happiness for them. May they have many more years of happiness and love.

[@emilywiebel3238]

Victoria had me crying from the very beginning. I’m so happy for her and her biological mother. To finally have that connection and to know your story has to be magical. Also her parents (adoptive) are incredible. To be so supportive and also being open about her journey her entire life since being with them is also amazing. More adoptive parents should learn from them.

[@BellesDreams]

Poor Viktoria , she has had to keep her emotions in check all of her life because she knew she had pieces of herself missing. Now, as pieces are put back together, how to you keep from falling apart with Joy?!❤❤ Thank you Alex for bringing them together ❤AND she looks like mom, 😊so tragic about her sister 💔. May Viktoria and her biological family have many more years and more memories to be made ❤❤

[@colleenwilliams1452]

I live in the South Island New Zealand not far from Viktoria. I’m so happy you found your mother. My mother was abandoned at the hospital of her birth and we never met our grandmother. I am the image of my grandmother.

[@lyricusx2900]

Have your mom take a DNA ancestry test or take a DNA ancestry test to find your mom's family.

[@emilywiebel3238]

Anya’s story made me so happy and also heartbroken. First off her parents are wonderful. When she spoke about her mom going back the second and third time alone to adopt her and how amazed she was, I feel like they are going to have an even strong bond now. She’s always known they loved her and did everything possible to bring her home, but after her own journey back to Russia really put it into perspective. Also her grandmother, what an amazing woman!! It didn’t matter to her that Anya wasn’t her biological grandchild she loved her and wanted her just as much. When her cousin pulled out the pictures and letter from years ago, gah I bawled. If that didn’t show how much her grandma loved her I don’t know what can. So glad she got to go on the journey and get some of the answers she was looking for and also answers she didn’t know she needed.

[@Mathilda5xp]

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing stories, Alex Gilbert. It gives me such a lot of comfort and pleasure, when the adopted children meet their birth parents. Stay blessed.❤🙏❤

[@Mtz2604]

This video moved me so much, I cried a lot. Seeing all this people having some sense of their blood family back is so touching. I'm glad all could find some piece of their blood family. Looking forward for a second video.

[@lisagreenway8410]

I was in floods of tears watching their reunion in Russia with her mom (viktoria), it was so beautiful xx

[@spunkygmahappy4778]

I love that these folks are being helped to reconnect with their birth families.

[@Stacy-iu6ch]

Daria what a blessing you have received? The change in your spirit after meeting your Auntie was incredible. Take care Beautiful

[@lyricusx2900]

I'm so happy for Vika. I was adopted and my joy for Victoria is immense. Vika you don't have to apologize for your tears. They are tears of love. ❤

[@barb24427]

Victoria looks most like her maternal grandfather. 😊Glad she was able to meet everyone!

[@kathleenclark291]

Dr. Scott you are such a passionate, decent, loyal man. Watching your dog cuddle on your lap and hearing you speak your truth, says it all! Congratulations, wishing joy, happiness and prosperity to you and your amazing team! ❤❤❤

[@GeraldineDevlin-y8u]

What a beautiful thing to do for someone & their birth family.

[@angelaclausing5565]

These types of shows always bring out the waterworks in me... so emotional

[@lovelight4763]

Daria Rottenberk: WOW Another amazi9ng story about adoption. I too am adopted and these stories are not only heart breaking but also fulfilling because it finally fills the void that is in one's life. I feel your pain your love your question of why and the joy as well as the unconditional love. I watch a listen to these kinds of stories because of the Love. Unconditional love is something I am still learning. Love your story!!

[@elizabethvoigt9712]

When you found out about your mom I loved how the dog sat right behind you.

[@cindiemoore2530]

Vika is a picture of her grandmother And she lit a flame long extinguished in her Mothers ❤️ I

[@markr.devereux3385]

beyond amazing this whole show. never get tired of the RUSSIAN countryside and those great women at the orphange❤

[@Picco2008]

Victoria looks exactly like her Granny 🥰

[@tararasque932]

That grandma is the most adorable ever!

[@MrDaigoRiki]

Victoria seems a very nice girl, that can be a closure and she starts an another chapter of her life, good for her.

[@Thurstorm]

Guuuuurrrllllll……you’re such a nice and gentle young men! I really appreciate what are you doing for your peers…I love you!

[@1927su]

What a nice reunion! Ya know, people are just people & we all basically want the same things. To live & work in peace & enjoy family & friends . We all really do have more in common than our differences.

[@GenevieveWaller-pk3xg]

All these beautiful children. Life was difficult back then but its still difficult. I could never think of giving up one of my children but you cannot judge because it is best to give up than starve or kill. I see many parents doing that now. Starving your child or killing your child makes me sick in my stomach.

[@dannquan7696]

So happy for Victoria and her mom ❤

[@lindadurand247]

So happy for Viktoria ❤

[@steviemac9055]

Brave, eloquent, lovely women.

[@nanak2025]

Such wonderful stories of strength, survival and love.

[@camilleszalma4556]

Victoria has a wonderful support dog. I noticed the dog staying behind her after she got the news about being about to meet her birth mother. Also, I identify with her because I'm also a southpaw.

[@phanhhoban5696]

Mom and daughter love. Im crying with them

[@aloha8934]

I hope Daria finds her dad one day

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I am hoping that too,and it might happen after folks in Russia spread the word that his daughter is liking for him.

[@hollyhock4160]

Touching, very well done!

[@lauraIngleswilder74]

Viktorias mother (both) are beautiful people

[@margaretjacobs4016]

I feel sucked in…this could be 3 episodes easily… thank you for sharing!

[@ankiking]

She looks so much like her grandma. So cute! ❤

[@rachelcagnacci3993]

She is definitely part of that family!

[@mattstevens8210]

Thank you for bringing so much happiness to Long lost families and to find the love they Deserve❤

[@donitadurham-mack3118]

That really deeply touched me

[@AngeleAlAahnnAn]

❤❤❤❤❤I feel the love❤❤❤❤ Glad you found your family

[@JudithBisson]

1:20:04 no wonder her father had a problem with alcohol,he was suffering from PTSD. No one took care of the minds of soldiers after battle.

[@wildlifeandpetadventures20]

But I find it interesting that her aunt said he didn't drink... ?? Wasn't that the Aunt that would try and help take care of her? She would have had to have known he drank. Unless she thought maybe Daria wouldn't remember and it would be better to say otherwise. To paint a better picture for her.

[@janesmith9024]

Wonderful. The adoptive mother who herself had had to move from Trinidad to Barbados as a child has just the right attitude too. Good luck to them all. Alex looks so Russian - in a good way....

[@aleksandrakazijas4217]

I’m so happy for them, I couldn’t stop crying.

[@angeliquemolgr26]

I am 25 min into this documentary and it is so good! I remember your own journey and when i saw this i had to look, well done Alex! Greetings from Amsterdam.

[@lisafox2073]

Victoria s mom did the only thing she could at the time so her daughter could receive the medical care she needed,I'm sure that was the hardest thing of her life,but it was a selfless thing to do,God Bless them both ❤

[@lovelight4763]

Viktoria Rundle...Your story touches my heat! I too am adopted, My story is not even close to the mile and the effort that must have gone into finding your beloved Mom. I am so happy for you and sad at the same time for the loss of your sister you didn't get to meet. Your adopted parents are very lucky to have such a sweet girl to raise. Thank them for taking the chance to make a better life for you. Your birth Mother I feel sorry for having to give you up because of your illness at the time. I'm sure she cried to have to give you up because of her circumstances. Your heart felt love is unexplainable. I can see it in your face. May Hippieness always come your way!

[@annamcnarin]

I wonder if, having spoken Russian for her first five years, Viktoria will find it easier to relearn. I want to give Daria & Anya the biggest hugs.

[@rosegeaber7533]

Bless you for helping folks find their kin!❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethmusso5946]

Next time, have a box of tissues. Oh, my goodness. That was beautiful. I could almost feel that hug. Bless these families.

[@simbamarara1]

Her New Zealand parents are my MVP, they gave her love and made it easy for her to reconnect with her past

[@JoMamaLuvsReptiles]

❤wow. Like a puzzle and you found pieces to start to make it complete.

[@beverlystufflebeam5731]

First time watching your channel. Very nice thank you.

[@kficandothis]

What a lovely story.

[@MarciaLeeful]

Wonderful stories

[@nancynl415]

How wonderful!

[@jerenedaley7651]

I think her sister was with her all along pushing her to go find mom knew she was suffering on the inside especially after her first daughter’s death ❤

[@Hrobboro]

My heart breaks for Viktorias mother 💔😪

[@AzulRomero-r1i]

I have 2 adopted daughters that must live with having no answers whatsoever, as in their cases, there is just no way to find their birth families. I am glad you did this and that is was possible for you…

[@LilyGazou]

Not even DNA?

[@Jsh465]

Every episode is a tear jerker!

[@eraera2022]

Very sad when aunts don’t want to take care of their niece but she is really blessed to get a good family. I am am sure her life would be worse if she stayed in Russia

[@anne-marielapointe-sp3mj]

The aunt DID want her, but it was a very difficult and proverty stricken time in Russia at that time, her husband had just died and she had other children to feed already.

[@emilywiebel3238]

What aunt didn’t want to take in their niece?? Not one person in this video was that way. There was an aunt who desperately wanted to take in her niece but she couldn’t bc of how the times were. She wasn’t able to and be able to care for not only her niece but her own children as well.

[@jblovsoccer]

I'm an aunt raising my niece. My sister was murdered

[@LilyGazou]

@@jblovsoccerbless your good heart ❤️

[@lyricusx2900]

Daria needs to take a DNA ancestry test to find her mom's and Dad's family.

[@ThereseDavidson]

Wow Daria had it very difficult ❤

[@kathleenmartin7498]

Victoria looks a lot like a girl who was in an episode of a video on KZbin put out by Vasla in the Hay. There could be relatives.

[@BermetChynybek]

Валентина (Дарья) такая красивая яркая девушка.Прямо как голливудская звезда. Очень похожа на Дженнифер Лопес и смеется также как Дженнифер. Очень жаль что ее отец спился, а какой он красивый был в молодости. Проклятая водка сделала свое дело. И мать ее умерла. Зато теперь у нее есть тети и кузина. А первая героиня Виктория нашла свою мать. Мать уже поплатилась за свой грех потерей старшей дочери. Теперь Виктория позаботится о матери. Ведь она теперь у матери единственный ребенок.

[@carolethorn3211]

She looks like a cross between Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie. I hope somehow word gets out to her father and they find each other.

[@charlenevetanewchannel2932]

С каких пор платой за сдачу ребенка в детдом является смерть детей? Что за ужасы вы пишите? Как язык поворачивается?

[@janet3895]

How do parents feel after finding out she wasn’t given up willingly

[@lorimav]

I doubt that is completely the case so they don't need to feel guilty. If she were just sick she could have gone to Sanatori. She went to Dyetski Dom at age 2 yet she didn't remember her mother even though she was adopted at age 5. Why not? Why didn't family visit? My Russian sons were visited by grandparents and were even allowed to spend holidays with them. Neither set of biological parents visited though. If they are to be fostered or adopted the extended family is also notified in case they want to foster them. My middle son was about to be adopted along with his biological sibling to a couple in Oregon. The great grandma was still alive and she managed to get the aunt who was unwilling to foster the boys to find a Russian family to foster the younger sibling. That family was unwilling to take my son. That disrupted the adoption process for that couple. I know because that is how I found out about my son through the couple. In the first story it seems possible that the mother lost rights to the child and therefore could not prevent a foreign adoption or surrendered her but did not visit and did not stand in the way of adoption.

[@wandering_rose]

Hay where do we find the other episodes?!

[@yunuenc7487]

Omg I feel so sad for Daria/Valentina I pray she finds her father 🙌🏼

[@lulua.9514]

Why did Daria's aunt say that he didn't drink but he drank all the time according to his daughter?

[@wildlifeandpetadventures20]

Thought the same thing!! I almost wonder if maybe she thought Daria wouldn't remember and wanted to try and paint a nicer picture for her. I was so happy she found someone in her family, though!

[@whitneyrose96]

super freaking cool doc!

[@janet3895]

Took pride in being different 🫢💕🥳

[@humus4000]

Good story 👏

[@anthonywilliams-vx4cm]

I like Russian women. I think that they are strong women.

[@krstr5960]

Alex. … glad to see this series

[@pennyoneal2600]

What about her brother

[@GIVERIGGYRAISEaNOW]

God I love vika I'm so glad she got to meet some of her birth family... you could see the weight come off her chest ... vika I hope you are doing well 💗 and I wish u nothing but the best and would always b here if u ever needed to talk

[@lora1062]

She looks just like her grandmother

[@annienewton3999]

She looks so much like her Mum !!!

[@Iamhome365]

Poor Viktorias mother, for her child to be taken then to lose her other daughter, heartbreaking

[@JudyWing]

Watching from WA state!!

[@jillrector7176]

My bro was adopted from Germany in the early 60s and my parents were told he was half German and have American GI. They were told she may have been a prostitute. He never tried to find her. Has this kind of news been given to any of your clients?

[@dalet9207]

Issues may have existed for parents and their pasts as well. My dear, D, yes we do have memories of early years….especially bad ones.

[@marielawrence-settle6476]

Has Daria had any more luck in finding out about her father?

[@JohnLegends-em8fr]

I cant stop watching this show smiling and crying at the same time

[@Dustypa66]

Do you think if they couldnt find her dad maybe he died and is in a cemetary by his parents?

[@denisenoles3159]

Who would have made the arrangements to bury him by his parents?

[@MS-hl8fe]

Where is Victoria's adoptive brother? Different mother/father? But adopted together, that's nice of the family.

[@Beth-mi2hf]

Different families he isn't her bio brother

[@kristyguest4792]

I watched it all Ray 👍 im already on two lees 😊

[@Bummer1980]

My biggest fear is my sons wanting to find their bio parents. Our adoption story came out of foster care. I know their bio parents are not good people and were in and out of prison, they may still be in prison. I just hope that I’ve been enough, their sisters and father have been enough for them. I love them beyond measure. There is zero difference between my adopted vs my birth children. I love them all the same. They are all equally mine.

[@ayinkemartins]

Trust me, you have been enough, but it is not about that. It is every human's desire to know their origin and to know who they look like.. even if they are criminals. A time will come when your children will want to know fully where and who they came from. You should embrace that phase with love and understanding. They will love you more in their maturity. That is true love. God Bless you more.

[@LilyGazou]

Don’t worry about it. My friend was adopted and in her thirties found her birth mother and father. The father never wanted to have a relationship with her, her birth mother was an alcoholic so she satisfied her curiosity and then closed the door on the past.

[@Beth-mi2hf]

It's not about you but ur selfish feelings aside

[@wildlifeandpetadventures20]

That's honestly quite sad you would not be supportive. That is a part of them, and for you to make them feel in any way they would be a disappointment to even think of wanting to find them is just wrong. People should not adopt if that is their outlook. My dad was completely devastated because of this kind of mentality from his adoptive mother. I would encourage you to be more open and understanding. 💛

[@Rachels123]

Beautiful 😊

[@Iamhome365]

For Vikroria, its incredibly sad that they will remove a child from its mother and put her in an orphanage just to give the child medical care but wouldn't give the child that medical care in the mothers care!! So incredibly sad. How many other children were ripped away from their parent

[@silkekanter2779]

She looks so much like her mum

[@emmafaught6820]

I really wish I could find my birth mom and dad I was also adopted from russia

[@yunuenc7487]

Have you tried to reach Alex?

[@Iamhome365]

Really enjoying this but oh my goodness, the ads, theres so so many, 2 every few minutes!!!

[@out-side-in]

Beautiful ❤

[@verysad2036]

At least a person can communicate with modern technology