Long Lost Families

I do enjoy it. Seems often, however happy a person is with their current life, there is an overwhelming, understandable desire to know about their blood family, and why they were given up. There must be feelings of rejection, why was I the one given away etc.

I always want to know more about what happens next, with the merging of two families. Often I think it can't end that happily, but at least they have more information about their past.

I don´t live in the UK, so I always watch this on youtube a day later, Very moving. But am getting very tired of the same format, the same phrases, the same outcome. Very often you donˇt get to know the nitty gritty, the lady in last night´s episode was keen to find out about her obvious Asian heritage, but there was no clue. There were other siblings who didn´t want to appear in the programme. Did they ever get to meet? We have a similar programme where I live, but sometimes you get the cases where people refuse to meet up for whatever reason. It makes for more compelling viewing, wondering what will happen. Long lost families is just too predictable. I found my cousins in Brazil a few years ago just through searching the internet, I went out there and we had a wonderful reunion and are still in touch.

I know someone who was in this series and said that after the big reunion they will probably never meet again.

Think I must be the only person who dislikes this overly sentimental 'show' . So much emotion for people who don't know each other. Definitely nurture not nature for me.

always sad,my aunts were housed out when my granny died they were 4 and 6 ,the relatives who took them changed their minds and put them into seperate childrens homes .My lovely dad was only a boy but when he turned 16 he found them and visited and one of them lived with us for a wee while when she got out of the home.Sadly we lost touch when we ALL moved homes in the 60's they went south of the boder and any mail they sent never reached us.My dad always worried about them .Just a few years ago I traced the daughetr of one on FB and have visited them both.They were desperate to know about family,and though I didn't have much information I gave them all I could .It made a huge difference to them to know about their mother and grandparents and to get information that filled their family tree back until 1740...well on one side, I didn't have their dads info as he was my Step GF .We keep in touch and I know it means the world to them .Sadly Dad was long gone by the time I found them but I'm sure he would have been thrilled too

I like it too. I especially remember one case from the very first series where a young woman had a baby and was fortunate enough to be able to take the baby home and stay with her parents. Then her mum became ill and she went out to work while leaving her baby in a nursery but on returning home had to care for her baby as well as do all the cooking, housework and laundry for the other children in the family. On the verge of a complete physical and nervous collapse, her doctor told her she could not continue and she had to put her daughter up for adoption - at the age of 18 months - and she described waving to her as she left her for the last time. It was a really heartbreaking story. It was a happy ending but must have been a most terrible experience.

I'm not so sure that blood is always thicker than water but I think that people generally feel a need to know where they come from and whether they have any blood relatives still alive.