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Season 3
58:56
Stacey meets Charlotte, who's found the courage to look for her father after her mother passed away of cervical cancer without having the time to tell her his identity. Rogie recently discovered her mother had a secret daughter and wants to find the half-sibling her mother felt she had to place for adoption as an unmarried...
58:40
Laura was born with disabilities and put up for adoption. Now a mother herself, she has decided to look for biological relatives. Anthony and sisters Karen and Sally are looking for a half-sibling they believe their father had while stationed as a soldier in post-war Germany. Julie wants to establish her heritage once and ...
58:21
Judy's father, a Chinese mariner during WW2, was one of thousands forcibly deported by the government after the war, whose families believe they may have been killed. John is questioning the story his mother told him about his Italian student father. Ukrainian sisters Svitlana and Oksana are desperate to find family that f...
Season 1
58:53
Expired
Triplets Peter, David and Phillip were adopted as young boys and have only been able to guess where their father comes from - Italy? South America? When Professor Turi King analyses their DNA and finally uncovers the truth it changes everything they thought they knew about themselves.
58:05
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Stacey meets Janine, who has lived her entire life never knowing the identity or ethnicity of her birth father. Her British mum kept her true parentage a secret, which made life difficult while growing up on Braunstone Estate in Leicester. Janine finally wants to discover the origins of her DNA so she can put the mystery t...
58:27
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Stacey meets 75-year-old Bill who has grown up without any contact with his father. The only information Bill has ever had about his father is the name written on his birth certificate. Now Bill wants to know if analysing his DNA might be able to tell him what happened to his dad - and if he has any living relatives in the...
Season 3
58:49
37-year-old Stephanie was left as a newborn wrapped in a plastic bag. Found by passers-by, she knows nothing more about where she comes from. Now she wants to trace her family and let her biological parents know that she's had a happy life. Mark believed his birth father was Egyptian all his life but has recently started ...
59:01
Kerry is desperate to know whether the man she knew as a child was really her dad. Conceived using IVF, twins Madison and Sydney are looking for their egg donor mum. Anthony from Liverpool is searching for the American GI he believes was his father.
58:14
Stacey meets ex Olympian Sarah, who's searching for the father who returned to America before her birth. After 91-year-old Jean was evacuated during the second world war, she was told her mother had died but now has doubts and is searching for the truth. Sisters Tanya and Kim were internationally adopted as toddlers and a...
Season 2
58:52
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Stacey meets five sisters in Lancashire who only found each other as adults. They know they all share the same mum but want to find out if they also have the same father. Luke was a sperm donor in the late 1980s. He's now come forward to find out if any potential children might be looking for him. Identical twins Diane an...
58:55
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Georgina was conceived 34 years ago when her mum had a holiday romance with a Portuguese waiter. She's now wondering if her father is still alive. Matthew grew up never knowing his father's identity and wants to know if his ancestry is Caribbean.
58:57
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38-year-old Clare was always told that her father was a British soldier stationed in Belfast during the Troubles. Now Clare wants to solve the mystery of his identity. Leigh only discovered that he might have a secret sister after his mum passed away. He now wonders if his sister is still alive.
58:47
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46-year-old Mel only found out as a teenager that she was conceived using a sperm donor. Now she wants to see if she can find her biological father's identity by decoding her DNA and discovers far more than she ever expected. Fi always knew she was adopted. What she didn't know until later in life was that her father murde...
56:00
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Liverpool-born Maureen is wondering if her father was an African American GI who fell in love with her mother during World War Two - which could mean she has family in America. She is also curious why her three sons are so musically talented and if the secret may lay in her DNA.
58:41
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Stacey Dooley is in Liverpool to meet Richard, who is on a life-long mission to discover the identity of his father - he's blown away when he finally learns the truth. Janet is rattled by a rumour that her Dad fathered a baby as a prisoner of war during WWII and she might have a secret sister. Glen's mother never knew wher...
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