Episode 1
Andrew Denton
Jul 8, 2014
A generation ago Andrew Denton’s family anglicised their name from Ditkofsky to Denton, in an effort to keep members safe at a time of entrenched racial intolerance. Andrew now attempts to find out more about his family's past.
Episode 2
Rebecca Gibney
Jul 15, 2014
Rebecca Gibney attempts to find out more about her past and travels to New Zealand. The journey takes her from Parihaka to Wellington to Auckland, where she learns some shocking truths about her family history.
Episode 3
Jacki Weaver
Jul 22, 2014
After Jacki Weaver became a grandmother, she has had the burning ambition to discover about her father‟s biological mother.
Episode 4
Richard Roxburgh
Jul 29, 2014
Richard Roxburgh has become well known for playing different complicated characters, but knows little of the people in his own past. H e founds out about his family‟s footprints in an unexpected corner of the world.
Episode 5
Amanda Keller
Aug 5, 2014
Amanda Keller finds out that her bloodline has survived against all odds as she discovers that an ancestor faced hell on earth in Australia‟s most brutal prison and a mother who saved her family in the face of tragedy.
Episode 6
Adam Goodes
Aug 12, 2014
Adam Goodes learns more about his aboriginal heritage, journeying into the remote Flinders Ranges finding evidence of his ancestors from thousands of years ago.
Episode 7
Lisa McCune
Aug 19, 2014
Lisa discovers the man she thought was her biological Grandfather, wasn't in fact related to her Dad at all.
Episode 8
Paul McDermott
Aug 26, 2014
Paul McDermott's mother Betty, was adopted and raised by relatives but mystery surrounds the circumstances and her adoptive parents died without giving her any information.Paul attempts to follow the trail back to the early 20th century and finds out about a family torn apart by poverty and a decimating epidemic.
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