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Following the work of agencies dedicated to tracking down people's lost family members.

Following the work of Britain's army of family finders, from international organisations to independent genealogy detective agencies, dedicated to tracking down people's lost family members.

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Family Finders: Series 2: Episode 10

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Episode 10

Series 2

BBC One - Family Finders, Series 2, Episode 10

A woman is reunited with two sisters she grew up believing to be simply childhood friends.

Documentary series. 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.

When Tony Robinson was a boy he was sent to an open-air boarding school for children with ill health, and, during the two years that he was away, his parents made the heartbreaking decision to give up their new baby son for adoption. Following his parents' death years later, Tony found paperwork from an adoption agency and decided to investigate. His search led him to a brother, Stephen, who he'd never known existed. The brothers met up and have been in contact ever since. 

Tony then discovered that his parents had given not one but two babies up for adoption and so that he had another brother, Ian, out there somewhere. Several searches for Ian had hit a brick wall when one day a message from an unknown name popped up on Tony's laptop. It turned out that Ian had changed his name to Martyn some years earlier and that Tony's little brother had found him! Today Tony, Martyn and their sister Diane are meeting up to take a trip down memory lane. 

Lorraine Hall had spent her childhood believing that she was the only child of Pat and Ray Edwards, but, when Lorraine was 15, family friend Sylvia died, and Lorraine was stunned by the shock revelation that Sylvia was in fact her biological mother. In a heartbeat, Lorraine discovered that Sylvia's children, whom she'd grown up playing with, were in fact her brothers and sisters. However, following Sylvia's funeral, her children were split up and moved away from the area and Lorraine returned to being an only child. Years later, Lorraine has been reunited with two of her sisters, Belinda and Donna, and today they're visiting the local crematorium where their mother's name has been entered into the book of remembrance.

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Documentary series following the work of Britain's ever-growing army of family finders.

Documentary series following the work of Britain's ever-growing army of family finders as they track down people's lost family members.

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