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?
I love ‘Long Lost Family’ & have watched every episode. I heard it will be returning in May. I certainly hope so. It’s so much more interested than reality shows where people are fighting. The people on this show have real emotions & most of the time happy endings. even though they do not all end up happy, it’s real life & not scripted like most reality shows. Please bring it back !!!
Hi I have a question my great-grandfather my mother’s father’s father went by the last name of Casey but when we had the genealogy tree started it’s stopped completely with great grandpa I asked my mother’s cousin Lucille right before she passed away tell me something about great grandpa she stopped for a minute she said well Becky have you ever heard of The Orphan Train I said yes most definitely I’ve heard of that she was quiet after that didn’t talk about it is there any way or was there any records of the orphans that was taken across… Read more »
I agree with Rebecca. I have read 2 books about ‘Orphan Train children’. It’s an amazingly interesting story. Some good results & some horrendous. You could makes hundreds of episodes, depending on how many of the
survivors you could find. Just the 2 books I read, opened a whole new Chapter of how cruel life was in that era. Some charities did the best they could. And some children had a good life but as human nature is, there were scoundrels also that just exploited those children.
I love this show. The best show T.V. ever had.
This is a very heart warming series. How wonderful families find their lost love ones
Love this show, and I’ve been hooked since day one!! I wish the season finale hadn’t been tonight, they need to air more shows! Lisa and Chris are great! I talk about it to everyone, spreading the word to watch! More, more, more…
Where is the father in all this? The mon, twins abd baby sister
Please do not cancel the show I love it and look forward to watching every week. ❤
Please air for season 2. This is real life and so great to something real
I would like your help finding my birth parents and if I have any siblings.
I really enjoy this program! Wonderful to see people find family that they know is out there and want to be involved in their lives. No one deserves to live in this world not knowing where they came from or who brought them into this world.
Please continue the show TLC. We need good programs on our televisions to watch. Great job with helping all those find their loved ones:-) I’m sure there are many more who need your help
I love this show! Thank you TLC for helping people take the missing and broken pieces of their lives and putting them back together again.
I am looking for three uncles: James and John Barclay and Josephus Lawson. All born in Talladega County in the 1940’s. There mother was Henrietta and passed away when they were very young. Places of birth may include Talladega, Estaboga or Alpine Alabama. May have been raised by relatives in that area
My mom has 7 siblings. When they were children there mother died and she was separated from 5 of them. over the years we have found 2 of them, but to my dismay we cant find the three youngest brothers. My mother is now 78 years old and speaks of them more often than ever. I have searched and searched to no avail. Please help me bring my mom and her siblings together somehow.
In 1964 my mother left 4 children in Bonifay, my brother David Harcus, sister Theresa Hudson Land, my sister Margie and myself Janisa Newcome. Theresa was adopted by a family in Tallahassee, David went to live with his father. I was put in the Berry’s foster home. Later adopted by a family in east Tennessee. We have been looking for Margie all of our lives. She should be about 56 years old now. When we were children she had braces on her legs. We lived in in the projects right by the hospital. My brothers family lived in Bonifay, Caryville… Read more »
My name is Sara and was hoping for some help. My fiance does not know his birth father. He is no a father himself and i feel like he is struggling because he never had his father. Please help.