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Long Lost Family

Long Lost Family

Having embarked on their own journeys to discover their biological families, TV personalities Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner help others try to track down loved ones. Each episode features two emotional 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 give up for adoption long ago. In addition to providing emotional support and guidance, Chris and Lisa conduct painstaking searches through public records and utilize current DNA technology in their search for answers. The things they discover and who they find are anything but expected.
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  • Identical twins enlist Lisa's help to unlock the mystery of why they were placed for adoption; Chris hopes to fulfill the wishes of a deceased father by tracking down the firstborn son he and his wife had placed for adoption.

  • Lisa helps a man find answers about his adoption; a breast cancer survivor searches for her birth mother.

  • Chris and Lisa join forces in an attempt to solve the childhood mystery of why a woman was separated from her birth family at the age of two.

  • Chris unwraps the mystery of a woman's origins, which at a Korean orphanage; Lisa desperately searches for a woman's only child, hoping it will heal her.

  • Lisa hopes that locating a man's biological mother will finally allow him to overcome his lifelong struggle with abandonment; Chris locates a woman's only child and delivers the difficult details of her daughter's birth story.

  • A woman enlists Lisa's help to find her birth mother, but unearths a 40-year-old secret in the process.

  • Chris tries to solve the 50-year-old mystery of why a woman was abandoned at a laundromat days after being born; a family enlists Lisa's help to track down the firstborn son that was placed for adoption, hoping to fulfill a father's dying wish.

  • Lisa tackles the challenging mystery of why a woman was abandoned in a trash can as a baby; unexpected DNA results throw a woman's entire identity into question.

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8 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    All the Leaves Fell off My Family Tree
    The Court Said No, We Were Too Young
    The Last Time I Saw My Mother, I Was 5 Years Old
    If You Bring Your Baby Home, You Can't Come Home
    I'm the Only One Left
    Why Couldn't They Raise Us?
    The Missing Piece
    She's Gone
  • All the Leaves Fell off My Family Tree

    A woman's world was shaken when she discovered she was adopted at 25, and goes onto learn more dramatic revelations; a mother is in a race against time to find her son who she placed for adoption 46 years ago.
    Upcoming
  • The Court Said No, We Were Too Young

    A woman searches for her beloved sister who she tried to adopt herself years ago; after a life of longing, a couple is desperate to find the son they placed for adoption fifty years ago when they were teens.
    Upcoming
  • The Last Time I Saw My Mother, I Was 5 Years Old

    A man searches for his birth mother, whose disappearance when he was 5 years old has haunted him for his entire life; a woman hoping to meet a member of her biological family faces certain realities about her true past.
    Upcoming
  • If You Bring Your Baby Home, You Can't Come Home

    A man seeking redemption from his troubled past longs to reunite with the grown son he only got to hold for a few minutes; 46 years after placing her daughter up for adoption, a woman still carries the feeling of guilt for being an unwed mother.
    Upcoming
  • I'm the Only One Left

    Lisa helps a man find answers about his adoption; a breast cancer survivor searches for her birth mother.
    Upcoming
  • Why Couldn't They Raise Us?

    Identical twins enlist Lisa's help to unlock the mystery of why they were placed for adoption; Chris hopes to fulfill the wishes of a deceased father by tracking down the firstborn son he and his wife had placed for adoption.
    Upcoming
Long Lost Family

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Having embarked on their own journeys to discover their biological families, TV personalities Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner help others try to track down loved ones. Each episode features two emotional 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 give up for adoption long ago. In addition to providing emotional support and guidance, Chris and Lisa conduct painstaking searches through public records and utilize current DNA technology in their search for answers. The things they discover and who they find are anything but expected.

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Chris Jacobs, Lisa Joyner

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