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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 - 30 Minute Versions

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Family Finders: Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions: Episode 14: Tony & Martyn/Lorraine, Belinda & Donna

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Episode 14: Tony & Martyn/Lorraine, Belinda & Donna

Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions

Tony & Martyn/Lorraine, Belinda & Donna

BBC One - Family Finders, Series 2 - 30 Minute Versions, Tony & Martyn/Lorraine, Belinda & Donna

Lorraine spent her childhood believing that she was the only child of Pat and Ray Edwards.

Documentary series. Lorraine grew up believing that she was the only child of Pat and Ray but when she was 15, she was stunned by the truth.

When Tony Robinson was a boy, he was sent to an open-air boarding school for children with ill health. It was during the two years that he was away that his parents made the heart-breaking 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, whom he had never known existed. The brothers met up and have been in contact ever since. But the story didn't end there - Tony then discovered that his parents had given not one but two babies up for adoption. 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. Tony had found his second missing brother - or rather his 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, a family friend, Sylvia, died and Lorraine was stunned by the shock revelation that Sylvia was in fact her biological mother. Lorraine discovered that Sylvia's children, whom she had 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 are 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. Contains revised repeats.

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