Find My Family

In a special one-hour season finale, Find My Family revisits families since they first met on the top-rating program and reunites even more new relatives who have been found since the series began.

We’ll see what’s happened since the cameras stopped rolling and the surprising ways in which these new relationships have developed. We’ll also relive the joy when they came face to face for the very first time.

In the season finale: it’s another emotional moment for Daryl when her adoptive mother meets her birth mother Marlene for the first time. It’s been a big year for Marcus after being reunited with his son Trent, now he’s about to meet his newest grandchild. Despite anger and resentment, Amy’s new relationship with her father Peter has bought her happiness she never thought possible.

Tuesday November 18 8:00pm (PG)

This week on FIND MY FAMILY:

Sharon’s always felt slightly different from the Australian family who raised her. She’s always known part of her heritage is from somewhere far away. But now, with two kids of her own, Sharon’s decided the time is right to discover who she is and where she comes from. She finds it’s a long way home - a journey of surprise, deep sadness and intense joy.

Maurie has only faint memories of a sister, a sister he thinks he played with on a beach when they were little kids. He knows a little about his father and that he had more than one family. But nobody can tell Maurie exactly how many brothers and sisters he has, or where they are now. But that little sister has been on Maurie’s mind for years and now he wants to find her. So he’s asked Find My Family to help.

Tuesday November 11
8:00pm

This week on FIND MY FAMILY:

Zoie had a pet name for the man who showed up at her Mum’s place from time to time. She called him “the present man”. For a youngster, it made a lot of sense: whenever the stranger arrived, he brought a gift for young Zoie. So Zoie looked forward to the mystery man’s visits. But there was a lot Zoie didn’t know about the present man. There was a lot Zoie’s Mum thought it best not to tell her daughter. Eventually, Mum told the present man never to come back. But now Zoie is 30, with a family of her own. And she’s looking for answers about her own childhood.

Tuesday November 4
8:00pm

This week on FIND MY FAMILY:

John and Linda were wildly in love. So what could be more sensible than getting married. And when they discovered they were having a baby, everything seemed perfect. But how quickly that all changed. Linda suffered post-natal depression. A depression so bad that eventually she took her own life. John turned to drink. And their son Peter was adopted. Now, Peter's a grown man and he wants to find his Dad. And John wants to meet the son he gave away.

The bond between Robert and Carol is unbreakable. It's not just that they're brother and sister. It's because when their mother died, and they were separated, little Carol demanded her adoptive parents take in Robert too. Eventually, Carol won. So Robert and Carol have always stuck close to each other. But what about the rest of the family? Are there any others? Are they still alive? And if so, where are they..? There's many surprises for everybody.

Tuesday October 28 8:00pm (PG)

We meet Maryanne – put in an orphanage at four, she rebelled in high school and by eighteen Maryanne had a baby boy, Jamie. For a year, Maryanne tried to raise her son but it was all too much and she gave up Jamie for adoption. Jamie would be 32 by now and Maryanne has no idea what’s become of her baby boy.

Maryanne’s had more kids, but she’s never stopped thinking about Jamie, her first, the baby she couldn’t keep. Her life is on track now, and Maryanne just has to find her lost son, to try to fill that huge emptiness she feels every time she remembers the moment she handed over her one year-old baby boy.

Tuesday October 7
8:00pm

This week on FIND MY FAMILY, when Andrew was a teenager he received a letter from his mother, the mother he’d never met. And Debbie remembers the day her mum went to hospital to give birth but when Mum came home, where was the baby?

Andrew stayed in touch with his birth mother, Trish. He even received letters from her other children, his brother and sisters. But then, for the smallest of reasons, Andrew lost contact with his new family. Adopted and raised by a loving mum and dad, Andrew’s always been happy, but now he wants to know how his life began.

Debbie discovered that her mother adopted out her little brother and when she died, Debbie started searching for him. That’s when the agency told her, “mum didn’t just give up your brother... there’s a sister too.”

FIND MY FAMILY is presented by JACK THOMPSON.

When Peter was a just a boy in primary school, his mother told him the handful of words that changed his life forever. She said: “Before somebody else tells you, you’re adopted”. Peter’s life took a huge turn when he was told he had another mother and father. He left home and ever since, Peter’s been trying to find his birth parents, but all he ever gets are dead ends. It’s not that life was bad with his adoptive family; it’s just that Peter has always felt that missing connection with his blood family, so he’s asked FIND MY FAMILY for help. But the search does not go as Peter expected.

Tuesday September 23 8:00pm (PG)

Amy is angry and hurt that she's never had a father in her life. Her father has his own story to tell. Will Amy give him a chance? When Julia was eight years old she stumbled upon some shocking news. She was adopted. What happened to Julia's parents? And where could they be after all these years?

Amy is angry and hurt that she’s never had a father in her life. Her own dad just disappeared when she was a baby and Amy has no memory of him. She’s a single girl with a good job and Amy’s been thinking more and more about the dad she’s never known. But even if she finds him, Amy’s so upset, she’s not sure she even wants to meet her father. His name is Peter, and Peter has his own story to tell.

Tuesday September 16
8:00pm

This week on FIND MY FAMILY, Maise never told anyone how many babies she had and how many she adopted out. Maise’s grown-up children remember her, and one by one they’re finding her to ask Maisie the same question. Why? Tony’s father left when he was a baby and the child grew up in a home for boys. Now Tony’s a dad to a handful of kids and he wants to meet the father he never had.

When Maisie took her five year-old son, Keith, to the boy’s home, she might have known his memory of her, walking away, would haunt the boy forever. Keith’s managed to stay in touch with his mother, but fifty years later, his love was tested again when Maisie called to tell Keith he has an older brother, a brother she also gave up to a boy’s home. Now Maisie’s in her eighties and there are even more secrets to share.

Tuesday September 9 8:00pm (PG)

Lynda’s mother told her she had a one-night stand and all she knows about her father is his name and that he was in the navy. And Amelia has uncovered a family secret; she has a sister, but with only a first name to go on, she has no idea how to find her.

Lynda never knew her two sisters were really half-sisters until she was a teenager. That’s when Lynda’s mother told her the man she grew up calling ‘dad’ was really her step-father. For Lynda it was a big shock, but it did explain why she was the only redhead in the family. At forty years old, Lynda’s looking for a man called Graham who has sandy coloured hair, was in the navy back in the 60’s and probably doesn’t even know he had a child. It all happened forty years ago and it’ll take a DNA test to see if FIND MY FAMILY has found Lynda’s father.

Tuesday September 2 8:00pm (PG)

Richard’s getting married and he has a new baby. He wants to find his mother, who couldn’t keep him. Rebekah’s always known her father died when she was just a baby, but she’s never met anyone from his side of the family.

Richard always knew he was adopted but he didn’t feel ready to meet the mother who couldn’t keep him. It’s not that Richard’s complaining, he was raised in a happy family, but now he’s getting married and he has a new baby. For Richard, the time feels right to find out who and where he came from. In one of the most emotional moments on FIND MY FAMILY, Richard’s long-lost mother reads the letter she wrote to the baby she had to give up.

Legendary Australian actor Jack Thompson knows there can be no stronger bond than blood.

As a bloke adopted as a child and reunited with his father as an adult, Jack also knows that two people don’t need to have met for them to share unconditional love.

On that note, Channel Seven is proud to announce Jack Thompson as the host of its brand new program, FIND MY FAMILY.

FIND MY FAMILY shares Jack’s sentiment as it reunites lost souls and mends hearts that have been broken for a lifetime.

So many Australians have grown up without a mother, father, brother or sister, and often that absence leaves a gaping hole in their identity.

On FIND MY FAMILY, long-lost loved ones are reunited and that hole is filled with tears of joy.

The hardest heart will be moved by the mother, pregnant too young and forced to bravely give her baby up for adoption, when she is reconnected with her son, grown up and with a child of his own.

Channel Seven today announced production has started on its moving observational documentary series, Find My Family.

Reuniting long-lost loved ones after a lifetime of separation, Find My Family will be one of the most emotional series ever seen on Australian television.

The series brings together mothers with children they had to give up in tough times, fathers who haven't seen their kids in decades and brothers and sisters who've been kept apart by the tyrannies of time and distance.

Channel Seven Executive Producer John Rudd says the fragile and unpredictable nature of reuniting family members is at the heart of the series.

"It's gut-wrenching emotion. There's immense highs and lows. It's real human drama played out before your eyes. Pure heart-beats and tear-drops stuff," says Rudd.