Family Finders

Episode 6 (2x6)

Udgivelsesdato: Maj 30, 2016

This programme will be available shortly after broadcast Episode 6 Family Finders, Series 2 Episode 6 of 15 David Stewart grew up in Scotland along with two older sisters and a brother. When he was still a young boy, David discovered that his mother and older sisters weren't in fact his family by birth. His dad was his real birth father and had brought David and his brother to live with him and his new family. Years later, after the death of his father, David felt the desire to find out if he did in fact have any other blood relatives and, chasing up a rumour that his father had had other children before him, David employed the help of an amateur genealogist online. It seemed the rumours had been true as David discovered a half-brother called Steven. After several weeks of on-the-phone communication and, it turned out, several years unknowingly living just 50 miles apart, today the brothers are meeting up for the very first time. Sally James's mother Phylis spent most of her childhood in an orphanage in Ireland. At the age of 16, Phylis left the orphanage, moved to England to train as a nurse and had Sally but she never stopped wondering about her birth mother. Years later, when her mother was elderly, Sally took up the challenge to find out the truth about her mother's family and took a gamble on some cutting-edge family-finding technology - DNA testing. The gamble paid off, the results came back positive and Phylis discovered a brother, Sally's uncle Jim. Just a few months later, Jim flew to England to meet his sister Phylis. Sally had fulfilled her mission and, just four months later, her mother died. Today Sally and Jim visit a childhood friend of Phylis's who grew up with her in the orphanage.