TLC's docu-series Long Lost Family returns for a third season at 9 p.m. today. Chris Jacobs and Emmy Award-winning journalist Lisa Joyner serve as hosts. They do their job with great consideration for the folks being profiled, as they were both adopted and have personal experience tracing their own biological family members.
The series offers viewers a chance to hear stories from people who have endured a lifetime of separation and who long to be reunited with family members with whom they have a deep connection -- but who, in many cases, they have never met. The show uses resources such as public records and archives, family trees and Ancestry DNA technology to get results.
In each episode, Jacobs and Joyner focus on two stories in an effort to resolve the searches. With everything from closed adoptions to family secrets, the path to long-lost family members is always different and challenging. Sometimes the outcome is rejection, but often the search ends in a heartwarming reunion that resolves years of emotional pain.
-- Rosemary Boggs
Style on 04/08/2018