Family Finders - Season 1

Eighty-year-old Violet Rossini seeks the help of the Salvation Army's Family Tracing Unit to find her long-lost sister Kathleen.

Photographer Claire Seville attempts to trace her father George, who left the family home when she was just three months old.

Mary Kitchen has not seen her little brother Lennie for over 30 years. With the help of the Salvation Army Family Tracing Unit, she hopes to track him down.

Stephen Hills was just a baby when his father Alan, a coal worker in Doncaster, left home. Now with children of his own, Stephen is desperate to find his dad.

Rebecca Taylor has only a few early memories of her father Trevor. She enlists the help of the Salvation Army's Family Tracing Unit to find him again.

Journalist and war correspondent Jonathan Fryer was adopted at the age of 18 months, but grew up never feeling fully part of his new family.

With the help of family finder Antony Marr, Wendy Brightwell is reunited with her long-lost half-brother Rod.

A Harvard academic is reunited with the cousin he last saw when they were small boys growing up in wartime Liverpool.

When a woman offers to help a stranger research his family history, she uncovers a remarkable connection to her own family.

A man seeks help from family finders to track down a mysterious cousin whose existence only came to light in a passing remark from a relative.

A man tries to track down the cousin he hasn't seen since they grew up in south east London together during World War II. A woman searches for her father.

When Paul Smith set out to track down the father he hadn't seen since childhood, he knew the odds were against him - because his father's name is John Smith.

A woman tries to track down the younger half-brother whose contact details she lost when her purse was stolen over 30 years ago.

A woman enlists the help of an Edinburgh charity to track down her birth family after growing up in foster care and finds a long-lost brother.

Two first cousins, living only miles apart, are brought together as a result of their independent searches into their fathers' pasts.