Season 12

E1. Episode 1

May 23, 2022

In 2017, Jacinta Hickey contacted `Long Lost Family' looking for her younger brother Paul. Tragically, Jacinta died suddenly before the case was resolved. Meanwhile, 64-year-old Judy Kenyon believes time maybe running out to find her birth mother.

E2. Episode 2

May 30, 2022

Joselyn Turner was born profoundly deaf and put in a children's home at only two weeks old. She knows that her birth mother also had a son and is now searching for her older brother James for answers to her lifelong questions. In turn, James has also been searching for the father he never knew, and after 73 years, James finds more family than he bargained for.

E3. Episode 3

Jun 6, 2022

Two people go in search of their missing birth mothers. A woman taken to Morocco as a toddler against her mother's will searches for her birth mother while a man given up as a baby because of the colour of his skin searches for the truth about his family.

E4. Episode 4

Jun 13, 2022

E5. Episode 5

Jun 20, 2022

Ricky was 12 he was sent back to the children's home, leaving nine-year-old Murray completely devastated. He has wanted to find his older brother ever since. Also, eighty seven-year-old Mark found out that he wasn't an orphan.

E6. Unknown Soldiers Special

Jun 27, 2022

The team work on a case of nine soldiers found together buried in a trench in Belgium at the site of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Artefacts found near the bodies and DNA of potential living relatives are used to identify these brave men who lost their lives and to hopefully allow their living relatives to lay them to rest with full military honours at last.

E7. Episode 7

Jul 4, 2022

Telling the story of two sons who were given up for adoption. Andrew Barlow was adopted as a baby, but his birth mother Patricia refused to sign the adoption papers. Julie Redman discovered that her mother had given up her older brother for adoption.

E8. Shipped to Australia Special

Jul 11, 2022