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Podcast tells gripping story of Esther’s journey to find her birth mother
In April Spotify released an eight-episode podcast entitled ‘Looking for Esther’ and it tells the story of Esther Robertson, who was born in 1961 and is the daughter of a white...
Looking for Esther
Looking for Esther is a Spotify Original podcast that follows Esther Robertson's journey to piece together her past and her identity. Esther was adopted at birth and had three...
110 years by Gary Clapton
We are one of the oldest Edinburgh charities in existence. We’ve been stymied from celebrating our 110-year anniversary so often in the last year that we’ve decided to go ahead...
Vacancy – Social Worker
Birthlink works as a partner of the Future Pathways Alliance. This post will offer support to adults who were victims of abuse in a care setting in Scotland as children, with the...
Vacancies – Redress Team
Birthlink is in partnership with Scottish Government and others to support people to identify and source historical records and to compile those ready for Redress support. This...
‘Forgotten Scots’, made to give babies up for adoption in 1960’s
A 79-year-old mother from the United States has launched a desperate search for her son she gave up for adoption in Scotland in the 1960s and has highlighted the plight of the...
Piecing together of identity for adopted people like dismantling a brick wall
First, when a child leaves their birth family for an adoptive family, their name is changed and original birth certificate (Original Birth Entry - OBE) is annotated “adopted”.
AUTUMN BULLETIN
Here's the Autumn issue of our Bulletin. It is mostly taken up with an article on adoption papers, in particular Court Process and contains an account of accessing these at the...
A jewel among Edinburgh’s charity shops
