TLC‘s new Long Lost Family TV series premieres Sunday, March 6, 2016, at 10:00pm ET/PT. The eight-episode docu-series features family members trying to reunite with birthparents, biological families, or children placed for adoption.
Hosted by Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner — both adoptees who have searched for their own biological families — each episode of Long Lost Family features the stories of two people or families hoping to find what they are looking for. Watch the Long Lost Family season one trailer, below.
Get more information on the Long Lost Family TV show and its participants, from TLC:
REGRET, LOSS AND REDEMPTION ON TLC’S DOCU-SERIES “LONG LOST FAMILY”
The eight-episode docuseries premieres Sunday, March 6, 2016
Los Angeles, CA – LONG LOST FAMILY features the highly emotional and touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago. Either because of circumstance or fate, they’ve barely – if ever – met. The TLC series premieres Sunday, March 6 at 10/9c.
Hosts and well-known television personalities Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner are both adoptees who have embarked on their own journeys to discover their biological families. Each episode follows the hosts as they investigate the stories of two individuals or families who have longed to resolve their lifelong searches. The stakes are incredibly high: a successful investigation offers the promise of not just a heartwarming reunion, but also a chance of redemption for people who have wrestled with emotional agony for years.
There is no simple path to find the missing loved ones. With tightly held family secrets in their way, the odds are stacked against them. Lisa and Chris conduct painstaking searches through public records, and utilize the latest DNA technology in their search for answers. But what they discover, and who they find, is anything but expected.
Some incredible stories include:
Rita
A mother who was forced to place her baby boy for adoption 31 years ago. Rita’s boyfriend dumped her when she told him she was pregnant and her mother sent her to a home for pregnant young women for fear of a scandal. Still holding on to his baby blanket from the hospital, she longs to meet her son again and keep the promise she made to find him.
Jenny
Her birth mother was the daughter of a minister who was deeply embarrassed by a pregnancy out of wedlock. Because of the lack of support offered, she ended up placing Jenny with social services. The search for Jenny’s birth mother takes a dramatic turn, when photo evidence suggests they may have been unknowingly connected for years.
Diana and Jeannette
Two women in search for the father who suddenly vanished from their lives when they were just 4 and 5 years old. With no memories of their separation from him, the women have grown up haunted by his sudden disappearance. They hope he can be found so they can see him once again to find out the truth and ask him what happened.
Ancestry, the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, is teaming up with TLC as a sponsor of the upcoming season. As part of the show sponsorship, Ancestry provides family history research on each of the featured individuals to help make discoveries possible.
Long Lost Family is produced by Shed Media for TLC.
About TLC
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What do you think? Do you like the sound of the Long Lost Family TV show? Do you plan to check out the series premiere on TLC?
My dad full Chinese had been with a Caucasian lady named Mona in 1962, she was pregnant, Mona said she gave birth Dec 1962 and gave her up for adoption in Seattle, she would be 56 and I want to find my half sister… Please consider helping me.
Please help me find my daughter. She is 34 years old. Born July 5, 1984. Miss her everyday. Born baby girl brady at good Samaratin hospital in West Islip, Ny. My name is Kathleen Brady Mcloone. She has 2 brothers. Catholic Charaties of NJ has her adoption papers Please help me. Thank you so much in advance. Kathy Brady Mcloone.
I love this television show! But you had better have your tissues ready! I am looking for where Pensacola man James Silvey is connected with daughter Shadow Marie Silvey in Tampa, Florida,
I did invetro twice. Donated what I didn’t use. (Fertilized eggs)I did this in 1995 and 1986. (They would be 21 or 22)I always wonder if tge families I donated to were blessed with my children. If so, do they want to know about their heritage or medical?
I have a dear friend that is wanting to find her daughter she gave birth to Nov. 15, 1982. She was born in Atlanta and may have been adopted there. Please let me know if you can help her!!!!
I am searching for my birth mother, Donna Lee Hutchinson. I don’t have much information about her. I only have one photo of her. Once my dad told me my current mom was my step mom, I have begun a search for her. I am 34 now, and about to retire from military service.
My cousin is looking for his three children. two were placed together and one was placed with someone else. his heart is breaking after 20 years since he saw them. he had them taking away as his wife at the time wasn’t looking after them properly. he divorced her but it was too late to keep his children. he’s a kind caring person with special needs due to lack of oxygen went to his brain when he was a kid having a peanut stuck in his air way. He married a person who also had special needs. while he was… Read more »
my name is James Albert (Daff) Wolford… My story starts When I found out the I was born 09/27/1953, & as growing up my parents were married in 1955… My parent are James Elmer Wolford & Mary Marie (Daff)… As I got older I found a paper saying that I was adopted… So I ask my dad what’s the story… Then I find out that I have a sister… My Dad was married to a Virginia Mae (Daff), they were married in 1949, had a child, a girl, Ella Louise Wolford… As he would go off to work, Virginia would… Read more »
Does anyone know how to contact this show. My friend had her son kidnapped from her in Michigan when the child was 2 months old. She believes the kidnapping was staged by the father of the child’s parents. I would really love to help her and I can give detailed information date of birth location full name etc.
My father died when I was about 2 years old . My mother told me he had 3 other children . I should be the youngest. I need to know who my family is. Come to find out that he use to live in the same borough that I live in now
how do we get a hold of you to tell a story you may want to help out with.my brother in law did not know he was adopted until the lady who raised him died.. he was told by her sisters that he was adopted.. the lady who was his mother had been mean to him and drank very bad.. she blamed him verbally she said because his dad left her.. she put him in a children’s home until he got old enough to run a paper route and then took his money.. she didn’t like his choice of wife… Read more »
we need help finding my brothers son….it has been 30 years and we cannot find him ,.he has changed last names a couple of times and we lost touch. I have not seen my nephew since he was 3 years old and he is now 32 Please give us some consideration….it would mean everything to us
I need help finding my son
Loved this show please renew