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Family Finders - Episode Guide

Season 1

Episode 1

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jun 8, 2015

Episode 1

Eighty-year-old Violet Rossini seeks the help of the Salvation Army's Family Tracing Unit to find her long-lost sister Kathleen.

Episode 2

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jun 9, 2015

Episode 2

Photographer Claire Seville attempts to trace her father George, who left the family home when she was just three months old.

Episode 3

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jun 10, 2015

Episode 3

Mary Kitchen has not seen her little brother Lennie for over 30 years. With the help of the Salvation Army Family Tracing Unit, she hopes to track him down.

Episode 4

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jun 11, 2015

Episode 4

Stephen Hills was just a baby when his father Alan, a coal worker in Doncaster, left home. Now with children of his own, Stephen is desperate to find his dad.

Episode 5

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jun 12, 2015

Episode 5

Rebecca Taylor has only a few early memories of her father Trevor. She enlists the help of the Salvation Army's Family Tracing Unit to find him again.

Episode 6

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Jun 15, 2015

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Journalist and war correspondent Jonathan Fryer was adopted at the age of 18 months, but grew up never feeling fully part of his new family.

Episode 7

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Jun 16, 2015

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With the help of family finder Antony Marr, Wendy Brightwell is reunited with her long-lost half-brother Rod.

Episode 8

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Jun 17, 2015

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A Harvard academic is reunited with the cousin he last saw when they were small boys growing up in wartime Liverpool.

Episode 9

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Jun 18, 2015

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When a woman offers to help a stranger research his family history, she uncovers a remarkable connection to her own family.

Episode 10

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Jun 19, 2015

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A man seeks help from family finders to track down a mysterious cousin whose existence only came to light in a passing remark from a relative.

Episode 11

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Jun 22, 2015

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A man tries to track down the cousin he hasn't seen since they grew up in south east London together during World War II. A woman searches for her father.

Episode 12

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Jun 23, 2015

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When Paul Smith set out to track down the father he hadn't seen since childhood, he knew the odds were against him - because his father's name is John Smith.

Episode 13

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jun 24, 2015

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A woman tries to track down the younger half-brother whose contact details she lost when her purse was stolen over 30 years ago.

Episode 14

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jun 25, 2015

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A woman enlists the help of an Edinburgh charity to track down her birth family after growing up in foster care and finds a long-lost brother.

Episode 15

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2015

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Two first cousins, living only miles apart, are brought together as a result of their independent searches into their fathers' pasts.

Season 2

Episode 1

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: May 23, 2016

Episode 1

A family searches for their little brother, who disappeared 50 years ago following a wedding.

Episode 2

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: May 24, 2016

Episode 2

A discovery of an old letter from a mysterious relative in Peru leads a woman to discover a South American side of her family she never knew existed.

Episode 3

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: May 25, 2016

Episode 3

Two sisters find out more about their mysterious maternal grandmother and, in doing so, meet a cousin they never knew they had.

Episode 4

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: May 26, 2016

Episode 4

Three half-sisters who were placed separately into care and grew up unaware of each other's existence are finally reunited.

Episode 5

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: May 27, 2016

Episode 5

After the death of his beloved grandmother, a man returns to the Isle of Wight from Israel to meet a relative he never knew existed.

Episode 6

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: May 30, 2016

Episode 6

A man discovers a half-brother he never knew living just 50 miles away, and a woman traces her mother's family history and unites her with her unknown brother.

Episode 7

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Jun 1, 2016

Episode 7

A woman and her daughter try to trace a family member who moved to Canada during World War II and find relatives they never knew existed.

Episode 8

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Jun 2, 2016

Episode 8

Two sisters are reunited with their half-sister for the first time in nearly half a century.

Episode 9

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jun 3, 2016

Episode 9

A man adopted as a baby meets up with his two siblings for the first time in over a year and reveals some surprising news about his biological father.

Episode 10

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jun 6, 2016

Episode 10

A man discovers a second brother he never knew he had, and a woman is reunited with two sisters she had grown up believing to be simply childhood friends.

Episode 11

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Jun 7, 2016

Episode 11

A man who was adopted as a child finally meets his birth mother, and a refugee from Syria traces his family members who did not make the trip to the UK.

Episode 12

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Jun 8, 2016

Episode 12

Families are reunited many years after the unexpected return of missing soldiers from WWII caused them to be split up.

Episode 13

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jun 9, 2016

Episode 13

An investigation into the life of a man's mother reveals an 80-year-old brother he never knew he had.

Episode 14

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jun 9, 2016

Episode 14

A woman who was adopted as a young girl searches for her birth mother, and a pair of twins meet their half-sister.

Episode 15

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jun 10, 2016

Episode 15

Jeannie Taplin and her daughter look for Jeannie's father, while Graham Holloway meets his sister for only the second time since they were toddlers.

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