[man] Can you find my son?

It would mean the world.

[woman] The main thing I would love him to know is, he was wanted.

[Davina] In the last year, over 4,000 people from across the UK have contacted the "Long Lost Family" team... Do you know what her full name would be?

...asking us to find their missing family.

[woman] Many times I just cry into the bed covers.

I just want to find my baby.

A girl can make one mistake, and I was her mistake.

[man] I need to find my son.

There's a hole in my heart.

[Nicky] Using trained intermediaries, DNA experts and investigators all over the world...

Please check this name.

-...we find people... -Donna.

-Hello.

-...nobody else could trace.

They loved you, and they still love you.

We uncover incredible family secrets.

Why would they be faked?

-This was her dying wish.

-Really?

So she wanted it?

[Davina] And answer questions that have haunted entire lives.

-We have found him.

-Oh!

She wants to see me?

-[man] I can see myself in you as well.

-I know.

[Davina] This week, sisters haunted by a terrible choice their mother was forced to make.

[woman] "Nicola Jane Saunders and Nicholas James Saunders."

I was kept with Mum and he was given away.

Nobody should ever have to choose.

And a woman searching Hong Kong for the mother who abandoned her as a baby.

This could have been me 60 years ago.

The Long Lost Family team speak to many birth mothers who years ago were pressurized into giving their babies up for adoption.

But the impact of that decision goes far beyond mother and baby.

It can affect the whole family.

[contemplative music playing] Ooh, this is a good color, isn't it, Katherine?

Sisters Nicki Goscombe and Becky Lazell live in Stroud, close to their middle sibling Katherine, who has severe learning difficulties.

They're a posh color, I like that.

The sisters were all raised by their single mum, Janet.

[Katherine] That's my mum!

-[women] It is, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-Is that your mum?

-Mum.

[Nicki] Mum was only 16 when she got pregnant with me.

She was a child.

She made a mistake.

She just wanted to be loved, but my dad was married to somebody else.

In the 1960s, it was common for young unmarried mothers to give their babies up for adoption.

But Janet refused to do so, causing a rift with her family.

[Nicki] She brought shame on to the family, and she was thrown out.

But it must have been absolutely terrifying.

But she fought tooth and nail to keep me.

In her twenties, Janet met her next partner, Becky and Katherine's father.

She hoped to settle down with him, but again, it wasn't to be.

[Becky] I've never seen my dad.

He did not appear in our life whatsoever... any shape, way or form.

It was hard for Mum.

I don't think she coped very well, bless her.

-No, I don't think she coped.

-And not only did she have my dad abandon her, her family abandoned her, her other children's dad abandoned them.

So Mum, bless her, she had no support whatsoever.

She was completely on her own.

-Bye-bye.

-Okay, take care, lovely.

-Take care.

-Bye.

In spite of everything, they were a close family.

[Nicki] We were a little unit, always there for each other.

And I thought Mum was always open and honest with us.

But when Nicki was a teenager, she discovered her mother was hiding a tragic secret.

Mum had a tin, and in this tin was where she used to keep all the personal birth certificates and things like that, so I'm rifling through this tin, and I pick out this birth certificate, and I'm like... Nicholas James?

And I'm like, "Well, my name's Nicola Jane."

And born 18 months after me.

So I was like, "Well, who can this be?

I must have a brother!"

Nicki confronted her mother about Nicholas.

She broke down and told me that... she was forced to give him away.

She was 17 when Nicholas was born.

She didn't have any money.

She had, you know, nothing.

My grandmother just said, "You've got two children, no husband... you're not fit to be a mother.

You either give him up for adoption or I phone Social Services and both children get taken into care."

Nobody should ever have to choose.

My brother, he was six weeks old and he was sacrificed so that I could stay.

But it does make me feel guilty and sad, because...

I was kept with Mum and he was given away.

Their mother Janet hoped to find her son until the day she died 14 years ago.

Now her daughters have taken up the search.

-Hiya.

-Hiya.

-How you doing?

-I'm fine, thank you.

-You okay?

-Brilliant.

Going for a walk.

[Becky] My mum never wanted to give him up.

That was her dream that she would one day meet him.

So we need to find him.

[Nicki] The main thing I would love him to know is he was wanted.

I just want to say sorry that he wasn't part of our life when he could have been and he should have been.

[Nicky] When Nicholas was adopted, it was likely his name would have changed.

But with no way of finding out this information, it was impossible for Nicki and Becky to track down their brother.

So, we used a specialist who could access his adoption file and find out his change of name.

They discovered that he'd been adopted in Salisbury by the Ashford family and was now called David.

Searching with the right name and date of birth, we immediately found a match.

There was a David Ashford living on the south coast.

[moody music playing] We made contact and got a reply from David, now known as Dave, confirming he was our man.

Nicki and her sisters have always hoped to find their brother to fulfil their mother's dying wish.

But what will it mean for Dave?

Does he know anything about the circumstances around his adoption?

And if not, how's he gonna feel when he discovers the heart-breaking decision his mother had to make?

Dave now lives with his wife Jenny and their two children.

-Hi, Dave.

-Hiya, Nicky.

How are you?

-Very well.

-Come on in.

[Nicky] Thank you very much.

Out of respect, we've already told Dave about his mother's death, away from the cameras.

-Thanks for seeing us.

-No, you're welcome.

I'm so sorry about your birth mother.

Yeah, that was, er... that was a bit hard for me 'cause I'm never gonna see her, you know.

She's... never gonna see me.

That's been taken away from both of us, so to speak.

It was her dying wish to find you.

Yeah?

Was it?

Oh, God!

Really?

-So she wanted it, then?

-Yeah.

There was times, er, about 16 years ago, when I actually looked into my adoption, but I didn't pursue it because of, really, I didn't want to upset my mum and dad.

-So you always knew?

-I've always known I've been adopted, yes.

Good family life?

Good parents?

Yes.

Oh, yeah, I had everything I wanted.

But in the teenage years, there was something, like, missing.

Like I started to think about my birth mother, but I can't see her now, though, can I?

But... at least she was thinking of me, that's the main thing.

-I've got a photograph of her.

-Yes, please.

Oh, wow!

Hello, Mum!

[laughs] Amazing.

Hope she would have been proud of me.

[Nicky] Your mother never forgot about you.

If she'd been able to keep you, she would have.

She was so young when Nicki was born, and then she had you 18 months after.

-Yeah.

-And obviously wanted to keep you, but her mother said, "Look, you give one of those children up for adoption, or I'm telling Social Services and they will both be taken away."

Yeah.

So she would have kept me then, really.

She wanted to keep me.

Wow!

It must have been so hard for her as well.

You imagine what that must be like giving one of your children away?

Having an ultimatum.

She'd either lose one or both.

I couldn't think anything worse.

Imagine all that trouble she's gone through, all that heartache as well.

Oh, it's such a shame.

[Nicky] And now your sisters are looking for you on behalf of your birth mother.

Yeah.

It's amazing, innit, really?

Are you ready to see your sisters?

Oh, my goodness, really?

Go on then.

Wow!

-That's Becky.

-Yes.

-[Nicky] And that's Katherine.

-Yes.

She's got severe learning difficulties, but of course she would love to see you.

-Oh, wow!

-And that's Nicki.

Three sisters.

[laughs] It's all too much!

It's unreal, innit?

All these years.

[laughs] All these years!

Well, your sisters have written you a letter as well.

"Dear Nicholas, we hope this letter finds you in good health and happy.

We are your sisters-- Nicki, Katherine and Becky.

We want you to know that our mum never wanted to give you up for adoption.

It was not her choice or decision.

Mum was clearly heartbroken and she said that she always thought about you and wondered how you were... and if you were happy.

Her dream was that one day you might come..." Oh, God.

[sniffles] "...you might come and find her."

I'm sorry.

-You okay?

-Yeah.

"We would just love the opportunity to meet and hopefully get to know you further.

With love, Nicki, Katherine and Becky."

Can I keep this?

Absolutely amazing.

Thank you.

-This is my mum.

-Oh, wow!

[Dave] And this are my three sisters!

You've got three sisters.

They found you.

[Davina] But before we tell Nicki and her sisters that Dave has been found... many adoptees have no idea about the first hours or days of their lives.

But for the woman in our next story, the first two years are missing.

[woman] The only thing that I know absolutely is that I arrived at Heathrow Airport on the 20th December, 1962.

At the airport, everyone's going off to their destinations or coming back, but for me it's different.

This is the start of my life.

I have nothing before that.

Claire Martin was nearly two years old when she was adopted into the UK from Hong Kong.

This is the newspaper article from when I first came to the UK.

And that's me, sitting on the lap of the air hostess.

Claire was one of around a hundred children who were sent here in the 1960s from Hong Kong's overcrowded orphanages to be adopted by British couples.

She's now a successful human resources director with a family of her own.

But Claire's still haunted by her difficult start in life.

This is the jacket that I wore when I came from Hong Kong.

It's so tiny, I can't believe I fitted into this!

My mother told me that I was so traumatized that she couldn't put me down for two days.

Every time she put me down I'd scream.

It's well known that babies who grew up in orphanages had to rock themselves to sleep.

And I rocked myself to sleep till I was 18.

Claire grew up near Liverpool and had a happy adoption.

This is Mum, Dad.

Me obviously.

But she struggled to fit into the predominantly white community.

[Claire] It was a mixed marriage.

But Dad and I were the only Chinese people around.

As soon as I went to school, it was very obvious that I was different from everybody else.

I was stared at a lot.

I had a huge need to belong.

And there was one occasion I remember when I was about 6 or 7, and I prayed to be white.

And I prayed really, really hard that night, but I woke up and I was still Chinese.

At the age of 12, Claire's adoptive mum died and she began to wonder about her birth mother.

It's a huge void not knowing who you are and who your parents were.

It's very difficult to... survive without roots.

It's 56 years since Claire arrived here at Heathrow as a toddler.

Before that, her existence is a blank.

She doesn't know anything about her birth family.

And with records scarce, searching from thousands of miles away is unfeasible.

-Good to meet you.

How are you?

-Nicky!

So in this case, Claire's best chance of finding out anything is to fly back to Hong Kong to appeal for information.

This really is one of the toughest searches that's ever come our way.

I know our search team felt that finding anything more about your mother is impossible... in the UK, and the only way to do it was for you to be out there, on the ground, in Hong Kong where it all started.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

I just have to hope that I find somebody who lives there, somebody who remembers something.

-Yeah.

-Even if I can't find my birth parents, I would be happy to find any birth family.

I'd like to meet somebody who looks like me, sounds like me, thinks like me, laughs like me.

I haven't got anybody like that.

And now's the time to do it.

I'm 58.

If I don't do it now, anybody with any memories 58 years ago will be gone.

-Well, I wish you all the luck in the world.

-Thank you.

[Davina] Claire has travelled nearly 6,000 miles to the land of her birth.

She's brought with her the only document that sheds any light on why she ended up in an orphanage.

I've got my birth certificate here... and it says, "Believed to have been born on or about 21st December, 1960."

The certificate also reveals why her birth date is uncertain.

Rather heartbreakingly, it says I was abandoned.

Um...

It makes you want to cry, actually.

Claire's parents' identities are unknown, but the certificate does list the address where she was left.

"Found abandoned at the staircase of Number 61 Berwick Street in Kowloon."

People often ask me, could I forgive my mother for leaving me?

But I think she was in such dire and desperate circumstances, she didn't have any choice.

Today, for the first time, Claire's going back to the place where she was found.

[Claire] I've no idea what this building is but this gives me an opportunity to go to find the place, see that staircase, and maybe just kind of feel a connection between whoever it was that left me there.

57.

61.

Oh, flipping heck!

Oh, so it's flats.

The record says there was a staircase, so I would imagine there's a staircase behind that door.

This could be it.

Oh, my God!

Baby things!

My life must have begun here.

[exhales sharply] Yeah.

I mean, this is sheltered.

I very much got the impression she wanted me to survive 'cause she'd left me somewhere.

Probably the most comfortable place she could find to leave me.

Yeah.

That's what I like to think.

I wonder whether she thinks about me.

I'd like you to meet a very special lady now.

Her name is Claire Martin.

Because Claire was abandoned, she has almost nothing to go on.

Anybody who thinks that they may be related to me, I would love them to help me out.

So she's launching an appeal across Hong Kong media in the hope that someone will come forward with more information.

[in Chinese language] [Claire] I want to say I love them and that I've missed them.

Can you help me?

[speaks Chinese] [Claire] If my mother had me when she was very young, it's possible that she's still alive.

[speaking Chinese] But it's nearly 60 years ago, so we're asking somebody quite elderly to remember something that unlocks it all.

[speaking Chinese] [Davina] While Claire waits for a response to her appeal, she's tracing the name of an official on her birth certificate back to Po Leung Kuk, one of the largest orphanages in the city.

It's the final clue she has to investigate.

-[Claire] I've brought my birth certificate.

-Yes.

Because I think I was here.

-[Jayson] Okay.

-It's signed by the Matron of... [Jayson] Po Leung Kuk.

Yes.

-Exactly.

-Oh.

[Jayson] Fortunately, our archives contain a photo, and right here is the Matron Yeung.

Oh, is that her?

[Jayson] So she was responsible for taking care of all the well-being of the children in Po Leung Kuk.

[Claire] That's amazing.

So I was wondering, is there any evidence that I was here?

Unfortunately we couldn't find your file.

But sometimes some children, they might come to Po Leung Kok and we might not have a written record of them.

But we do have the pictures of children in Po Leung Kuk in the 1960s.

[Claire] So these were all my contemporaries in 1960?

-[Jayson] Exactly.

-Oh!

Look!

I have a memory of fiddling with this catch.

-[Jayson] Oh!

-And the whole front falling down.

And it felt like my whole world had collapsed.

And I'm pretty sure it was one of these cots.

-[Jayson] Yes.

-So that would have happened to me while I was here.

[Jayson] These beds were very common back then.

Exactly.

That was my earliest memory.

[Davina] Today's dormitories are in the same rooms as when Claire was a baby.

[Claire] Oh... Ooh, look at this!

All those cots!

Ooh!

How extraordinary.

This could have been me 60 years ago.

There's just something about it that rings a bell and it's just really strange.

Oh, dear!

I've got more information.

I know about the matron of Po Leung Kuk whose name is on my birth certificate.

For me it triggered memories.

But Claire still knows nothing about her family or how she came to be abandoned.

However, just as Claire's trip is drawing to a close, incredibly, there's a response to her appeal.

Hi, Claire.

Nice to meet you.

-How are you?

-Nice to meet you.

Gosh, I'm very well.

For generations, David Chor's family worked in the same building where Claire was found.

My parents run this shop in 61 Berwick Street.

-Yes.

-And I remember when I was just 10 or 11 years old, and they found an abandoned child, what they call it.

-Here?

-Right here.

And I was small, but just looking, I was curious.

-I'm sure you were.

-And see what happened.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

There's a landing and then you go up the staircase.

-Right.

And I was left there?

-Yeah.

Yeah.

The baby was crying a lot, so my mother called the police... -Okay.

-...and a police car came and picked up the child and put her into the police car and drove away.

Well, that's extraordinary.

And nobody saw my mother?

No.

No.

For me, you are the first person that I have met that has known anything about this.

Oh, my God!

I can't believe it!

I've actually met somebody who's seen me over there in 1960.

Absolutely incredible.

Thank you.

After all the emotion I've been through, at last I've had some good news.

[Claire] I really do feel that an important part of my search has happened.

I feel close to my birth family now.

But I would be really disappointed if this is the closest I could ever get.

So I'm just gonna keep working at it until I find something.

I'm not giving up.

I'm gonna carry on.

[Davina] As Claire leaves Hong Kong, she has one more card to play in her search for answers: her DNA.

Sisters Nicki Goscombe and Becky Lazell have been searching for their brother who was given up for adoption over 50 years ago.

[phone dialing] -[Nicki] Hi... -[Davina] Nicki?

-Hi.

-Hi, it's Davina here.

-Hi!

-Listen, I just wanted to say I'll be popping over soon.

Okay, magic, thank you very much.

All right.

We'll see you a bit later.

-Okay.

-Bye.

[Nicki] I can't believe that she's coming to tell us something!

-I wonder what's... -I don't know!

-Oh, my goodness!

-[Nicki] It's good news.

Oh, my gosh!

The sisters began their search on behalf of their mother whose dying wish was to meet her son.

They've spent decades wondering what happened to him.

And today I'm on my way to tell them some good news.

-Becky.

-Hi.

-Hi!

-Nice to meet you.

And you.

[patting back] How are you doing?

I'm fine.

Nicki's inside.

Come on in.

Oh, great.

Thank you.

-Thanks for talking to me.

-Thanks for coming to see us.

-Absolutely.

-I know you wanted to take the search on not just for you guys, but also for your mum as well.

-Yes.

-She had such a lot of sadness in her life, and finding him, I think, would have just completed her to know that her, her four children were back together.

Would have meant the world to her.

I still feel guilty that he was taken and I wasn't.

He didn't get the chance to be in the family with us.

He's missed out on us and we've missed out on him.

-Well, we've found him.

-[gasps] Have you?

Wow!

Well done.

Brilliant.

Wow!

And does he want to see us, or do you know?

-[gasps] -He does.

-Oh, my goodness!

-Oh, that's fantastic.

[Nicki] Really?

Thank you.

He's not cross with us?

He's so not cross with you.

Really?

Oh, gosh!

-He's now called Dave.

-[both] Dave!

Oh, Dave.

Oh, how lovely.

-Is he married?

-He's married.

-Has he got children?

-He's got children.

Oh, bless!

Oh, how wonderful.

-So he's married to Jenny.

-Yeah.

And they've got two kids, a girl and a boy.

-Wow!

-Wow!

-It's exciting.

-Oh, my goodness!

I've got a photo.

-[gasps] -Well done.

Here's your brother.

-Oh, wow!

-Wow!

-[Nicki gasps] -[both] Wow.

That's amazing.

[Nicki] He's lovely.

Hi, Dave!

-He's got lovely eyes.

-Wow.

-He always knew he was adopted.

-He did?

Oh wow!

-And he got adopted early on.

-[Nicki] Oh, good.

-[Davina] Into a loving family.

-[Nicki] Good.

Oh, that's all we wanted to know.

So Dave wanted to find you, but he hasn't searched because he didn't want to hurt his adoptive family.

Does he know about Mum?

-He does.

-Good.

-So sad.

-Really upset.

-[Becky] I'm not surprised.

-Yeah.

Mum would have been so, so happy.

I bet it's gonna make you think about her quite a lot.

She would have been absolutely thrilled to think that we're finally gonna meet him and have him in our life.

And I think it would have meant... -[Becky] She'd have been ecstatic, wouldn't she?

-[Nicki] Yeah.

-Just the best news ever.

-That is absolutely fantastic.

It's gonna be an emotional day when I meet you, flower.

[Becky] Oh, I can't wait to meet him.

Today, Nicki and Becky will meet their brother and finally put some ghosts to rest.

[Nicki] Mum's been in my thoughts an awful lot because I know Mum would be absolutely overjoyed to know that we're finally meeting him.

Very excited.

And very nervous.

Dave's travelled to Cheltenham where he last saw his mum, and it's here that he'll meet his sisters for the first time.

I wonder how they're feeling.

Lots of questions to ask.

Yeah.

Finally happening now.

-Yeah.

-So it's here, reality.

Gonna meet my sisters.

Oh, it means everything.

I know I shouldn't say it, but it does.

Okay.

I think I'm ready.

-Yeah?

You'll be fine.

-Yeah.

Right.

Bye.

Bye.

Thanks.

-Hi, Dave.

-Hiya.

-Hey, Nicky?

All right?

-Hey!

How are you?

[Nicky] It's gonna be some day, isn't it?

-[Dave] Yeah.

-[Nicky] Nervous?

-[Dave] Yes, very nervous.

-[both laugh] Oh, my tummy's got butterflies.

-[Davina] Hi, Nicki.

-Hello.

Hi, Becky.

How you doing?

-I'm fine.

And you?

-Fine, thank you.

-Oh, my goodness, are you ready?

-Nice to see you.

Right, let's go.

The siblings are meeting at a hotel not far from where the sisters lived with their mother.

[Dave] The sun's coming out now.

Well, there you go, the sun is shining on me.

Well, you're gonna meet them in there.

-Good luck.

-Thank you very much.

Thank you.

So this is where we say goodbye!

-Good luck.

-Thank you so much indeed.

-Thank you.

-Good luck.

-Thank you for everything.

-Thank you so much.

-Been brilliant.

-Thanks.

[both] Bye.

[contemplative music playing] Hi!

Oh, my love!

So lovely to see you.

[Dave] And you.

[Nicki] It's so lovely to know that you're real.

-Yeah, I'm real enough.

-So beautiful.

-Here's Becky.

-Hiya.

-Hiya.

-How are you?

-It's really lovely to meet you.

-[Dave] Let's sit down.

-Ahh.

-[Dave] I can't believe it.

You know me as Nicholas.

Is that strange calling me Dave?

Yeah.

In my phone it still says, "Nicholas's birthday, 1966."

-Really?

No!

-Yeah.

-So you think of me on my birthday?

-Yeah.

And my mum always thought of you on your birthday.

Always.

-It makes me feel a bit special.

-You are special.

You're our brother.

-My little brother and your big brother.

-Yeah.

[Nicki] Oh, just overjoyed.

Overjoyed and thrilled, and he's just gorgeous.

And it's just like a fairy tale come true.

[Dave] Yeah, it was overwhelming, like a firework display sort of thing, going off inside.

Do you know what I mean?

It was amazing.

Absolutely.

Today would have been so special for Mum, if, you know, she'd been here.

That's the one thing that we wanted you to know, that you were so loved.

I was wanted, but it was the circumstances.

-Yeah, she had no choice.

-Exactly, had no choice.

Well, hopefully now we can move on.

[Becky] I think Mum would have been thrilled to bits.

It would have just meant the world to her.

[Dave] Means everything to me.

Now I know that I was always loved.

I just felt so guilty in the fact that I was kept and you had to be given away.

You should never feel guilty.

It wasn't nothing to do with you.

-I know.

I know.

-It was just the circumstances.

[Nicki] The relief was just immense.

I felt literally like a weight had been lifted.

That was just fantastic.

-Well, I've got some photos if you wanted to see.

-Have you?

Yes, please.

That's for you, my sweet.

That was Katherine... Katherine's 50th.

-We'll meet her.

-You'll meet her one day, yeah.

I can't believe I've got three more sisters in my life now, it's amazing.

[women laughing] -Aw, thank you.

-You're welcome.

It's like we're complete.

My family's now complete because I've got my brother.

I've got my sisters and I've got my brother.

[contemplative music playing] [Nicky] It's now 11 months since Claire Martin returned from trying to find her birth family in Hong Kong.

In that time she's taken DNA tests and we've added them to several online databases.

Unfortunately, her closest matches are too remote for us to trace her birth parents.

But she does have a number of hits, all blood relatives.

The remarkable thing is, not all Claire's DNA matches are in Hong Kong.

Several of them are based here in the UK.

And incredibly, one of them, Joanna Battershell, is already a friend of Claire's, because DNA is not the only thing they have in common.

-[Nicky] Hi, Joanna.

-Hello.

-How are you?

-Good, thank you.

It's amazing to meet you.

It's just incredible you've got a DNA match with Claire.

It's a match, yes; I did the DNA test and of all the people that came up, I can't believe Claire's come up, and it turns out that we're distant cousins.

We flew into Heathrow on the same flight, so if you look, there's Claire and me right next-door to her on my father's lap.

-Wow!

-And there's a photograph of us being prepared to come to England.

-This is Claire.

-Mm-hmm.

And I believe this is me.

-That's incredible.

-Yes.

The chances are that we were babies in the same orphanage and we would have had cots in the same nursery room because we are the same age, we're both turning 60 this year.

[Nicky] And now you realize you're related to each other.

That's extraordinary for you and this is going to be extraordinary for Claire.

Yes, exactly.

[Davina] Claire found Joanna eight years ago through a group for Hong Kong adoptees.

They've been friends ever since, but Claire has no idea about their biological connection.

And Joanna isn't the only relative on the DNA databases.

We've gathered 19 people from all over the UK who have a match with her.

Claire has had no way of tracing her family, and apart from her own daughter, she's never knowingly met one single person she's biologically related to.

So it's gonna be amazing for Claire to meet some blood relatives.

We've told Claire off-camera that sadly we haven't found any close family.

But she knows we do have a surprise for her.

-Claire.

-Oh, hello.

Hi.

How you doing?

-Oh, fantastic.

-It's lovely to meet you.

-Are you ready?

-I am.

All right, let's go.

First of all I just wanted to say I am so sorry that we haven't found your birth parents.

I'm not surprised, but it would be wonderful just to find somebody, even if they're distantly related.

Mm.

Well, you do have some DNA matches on the database, and we want to take you to go and meet some of them.

Oh, good Lord!

I'm going to meet somebody who's actually related to me?

-Yes, you are.

-Oh, wow!

Having never met a single relative, Claire's about to walk into a whole room full of family.

Joanna is likely to be the biggest surprise for her friend.

She's gonna see me and sort of like, "What are you doing here?"

Of all the friends that I could have been connected to, she's so lovely, and I'm desperately looking for similarities in our faces.

Luyi Mi is not only a distant cousin but also has shared experiences.

I'm quite excited actually to meet Claire; I was adopted out of China so...

I absolutely understand her desire to find her biological family.

And 14-year-old Katyer is Claire's nearest DNA match.

Thank you.

-Ready?

-Yes.

-Are you nervous?

-I am.

-Petrified, actually.

-Yeah.

-But in a good way.

-Yeah.

Yeah.

Definitely.

Well, I'm only gonna take you this far.

-All right.

-And so I'm gonna say goodbye to you here.

-Okay then.

-Have a really good time.

-Oh, thank you.

I can't wait.

-Mwah!

-Good luck, Claire.

-Thank you.

Bye.

[all] Hello.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my Lord!

-[woman] Hello.

-Hello.

Ohhh!

Joanna!

My God, what are you doing here?

-Oh, my God!

-Oh, Claire!

Oh, my God!

I can't believe it.

Oh, my God, this is an awful lot of people!

-[laughter] -Are you all related?

-Yes.

-Oh, my God!

I can't tell you how extraordinary it was just having a huge room full of people.

That was a real surprise.

And a delight.

So that picture of us together as little babies and... Finding out Joanna and I are related to each other, it's just unbelievable.

We've always said we're sisters in spirit.

-And so where are you from?

-Originally I'm from Shenshi, but I'm adopted as well.

-Oh, you're adopted as well?

-Yeah.

-That's amazing to meet you!

-Yeah, you too.

[Claire] Luyi is looking for her birth family as well... and we found each other.

[laughter] I was born and raised in Cornwall.

And you're my closest relative.

-Yeah.

-Nice to meet you.

[Claire] It's extraordinary that I went all the way to Hong Kong looking for relatives... and in the end found them in the UK.

Thank you so much, everybody, for coming to meet me.

I'm just overwhelmed.

I feel as though I've got a family now, which I never had before.

And it's a big family.

-To the family!

-[laughter] To the family!

Cheers!

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