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All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Worldwide Search

    • October 18, 2006

    A worldwide search for people's most interesting ancestors.

  • S01E02 Murder in Manitoba

    • October 25, 2006

    A murder on a Manitoba farm leads A woman to a lost cousin.

  • S01E03 Irish Princess & Secret Life

    • November 1, 2006

    Irish princess of Newfoundland; war hero who deserted his family to live a secret life in England.

  • S01E04 Dog Tags

    • November 10, 2006

  • S01E05 Shakespeare

    • November 15, 2006

  • S01E06 Royal Connections?

    • November 29, 2006

    An Oshawa woman wants to know if she's related to the British Royal Family, or is it pure balderdash.

  • S01E07 The Plains of Abraham

    • December 9, 2006

    Wendy Cosby wants to confirm that her ancestor cradled the head of Gen. James Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec.

  • S01E08 Roadster

    • December 13, 2006

    Gar Darroch searches for the original owner of his 1931 Model A Deluxe Ford Roadster.

  • S01E09 War Hero

    • December 20, 2006

    Mike Ryan seeks to tell a long-lost relative about her war hero father.

  • S01E10 The Canada Kid

    • January 3, 2007

    Family legend has it that Tracey Kinch of Alberta is related to The Canada Kid.

  • S01E11 Coffin Ship Mystery

    • January 17, 2007

    An Ontario man wants to uncover the mystery of a coffin ship.

  • S01E12 Distinguished Flying Cross

    • January 24, 2007

    A Surrey, B.C. man wants to discover whether his great-uncle died in action earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.

  • S01E13 Mysteries of the Father

    • January 31, 2007

    A woman's search for answers about her father's mysterious ancestry uncovers secrets and intrigue.

  • S01E14 Oil Portraits

    • February 14, 2007

    A 19th century rural doctor rumored to have willed oil portraits of himself to each of his 13 children.

  • S01E15 Reader's Digest

    • February 21, 2007

    Erin Phelan documents the search for her ancestors in Reader's Digest.

  • S01E16 Journey to the Emerald Isle

    • March 7, 2007

    Erin Phelan travels to Ireland to see if she can locate lost relatives.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Birth Mother

    • August 18, 2007

    Christine finds her birth family and has an emotional meeting with her brother.

  • S02E02 Funk, Fights and Funny Money

    • August 25, 2007

    Kevin Howes creates a landmark CD of unknown music.

  • S02E03 Skeletons in the Closet

    • September 1, 2007

    Hat Creek Ranch, in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley according to many, is haunted by a number of ghosts. Jeff and Paul chase down the legends and track the ghosts.

  • S02E04 Lincoln's Assassin

    • September 29, 2007

    Man searches for the truth about his ancestor's involvement in the capture of John Wilkes Booth; Latter Day Saint's Family History Library.

  • S02E05 Finding the Bracelet & Dodging the Bullet

    • October 6, 2007

    A Dutchman finds a bracelet on WWII battleground in Germany; a woman finds out about her ancestors in the Napoleonic War.

  • S02E06 Icelandic Horsemen

    • October 13, 2007

    Icelanders travel across Canada to discover a 130 year old mystery of their ancestors.

  • S02E07 Framing Big Bear & A House's Hidden History

    • October 27, 2007

    An Alberta woman wants to know if an Indian frame was given by Indian chief Big Bear; Montreal abandoned house.

  • S02E08 Dave's Father & White Peter

    • November 28, 2007

    Dave traces his father's past; Shirley Godfried-Clingersmith believes she is a descendant of White Peter.

  • S02E09 Kissing Cousins, Unionville & Loyalist Connections

    • December 1, 2007

    Jeff Douglas finds out if an engaged couple are cousins; the Eckards find out if they descend from founders of Unionville; Laura searches her Loyalist connections.

  • S02E10 Library of Parliament, German Roots & The Missing Page

    • December 22, 2007

    Jeff Douglas investigates the librarian who saved the Library of Parliament; Jim Lomas searches for German roots; the missing pages of one of the most rare manuscripts.

  • S02E11 Roots

    • January 26, 2008

    A Toronto woman travels deep into the heart of Cameroon on a journey to unlock the secrets of her past.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Lost Brothers

    • September 6, 2008

    Robbie McCauley is no ordinary 17-year-old. While his friends play hockey, Robbie has been chasing a family mystery. Growing up, he always knew about his great-great grandmother, Ada, who was born in 19th century London, England and put up for adoption as a child. At the age of twelve, Ada was sent to Canada and never saw her family again. Robbie has asked Ancestors in the Attic for help in tracking down Ada's lost brothers, and finally reuniting her long lost family.

  • S03E02 Brothers John

    • September 13, 2008

    Joe Kyle searches for his brother John who was left behind in Ireland for reasons unknown.

  • S03E03 Mary

    • October 4, 2008

    Mary and her adoptive family travel to South Korea searching for her birth parents.

  • S03E04 Spirit Lake

    • October 18, 2008

    Jerry tries to find out the truth about Spirit Lake and one of the darkest chapters in Canadian history.

  • S03E05 Autograph Book

    • November 11, 2008

    Dick Steppler discovers an autograph book belonging to a WWI nurse in a sewing machine.

  • S03E06 Cenotaph(1)

    • November 15, 2008

    A school assignment researching 35 students who fought and died in WWII uncovers two wartime mysteries.

  • S03E07 Cenotaph(2)

    • November 22, 2008

  • S03E08 Missing Daughter

    • November 29, 2008

    Don Halls searches for the daughter of Jim and Alice Bolton, to tell her about the father she never knew.

  • S03E09 Cecilia

    • December 11, 2008

    Cecilia searches for her roots after she discovers her dad is not her biological father.

  • S03E10 Missing Pieces

    • December 28, 2008

    Ken Endo travels to Japan hoping to put the missing pieces of his family together.

  • S03E11 Amber Valley

    • January 31, 2009

    Lester Mapp retraces his family's journey through Oklahoma and Texas.

  • S03E12 Zebadee

    • February 7, 2009

    Zebadee Nungak searches for his grandfather, a Scottish fur trader named William Mackenzie Peter, who disappeared in 1930.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Chinese Connection

    • January 7, 2010

    When she was in Grade 3, Denice Brown made a startling discovery - she was part Chinese. Despite asking, her father refused to ever tell her anything about her Chinese ancestry or about his life before arriving in Canada.

  • S04E02 The Legend of Cyril Gardner

    • January 7, 2010

    Jonathan Hart is an unusual 15-yr-old: while his friends are off chasing girls, Jonathan’s been chasing a mystery. He has long been captivated by the legend of Cyril Gardner, a relative who fought in WWI

  • S04E03 Al Lambert: Escape from Behind Enemy Lines

    • January 14, 2010

    During WWII, Al Lambert's plane was shot down over German-occupied France and he went missing. For 5 months, his family feared the worst. Then they heard he was alive. Although Al Lambert lived a long life, he never told his family what happened during those 5 months.

  • S04E04 Clem and Angus

    • January 14, 2010

    Neither Tami Georgi nor Kathie Mackie planned to fall for a WWI soldier. A few years ago, Tami bought a batch of post cards on Ebay written by Clement Peake, a young Canadian soldier. Kathie found her soldier in an abandoned house in Cape Breton.

  • S04E05 Sidor's Saga

    • January 21, 2010

    After fleeing Eastern Europe in 1928, Sidor treasured letters from home.

  • S04E06 Journey to Ortona

    • January 21, 2010

    Melville Madden, a 28-year-old, spends Christmas Eve in one of the bloodiest battles in history.

  • S04E07 Slavery Roots

    • January 28, 2010

    Bob Stoutley recently discovered that his father took a dramatic secret to the grave.

  • S04E08 Russian Daughter

    • January 28, 2010

    When she was 13, Natalia's father was forced out of the country to avoid execution.

  • S04E09 The Secret

    • February 4, 2010

    Marguerite searches for answers to her mother's breakdown and the destruction of her own life.

  • S04E10 Black Market Baby?

    • February 4, 2010

    Christiane travels to Switzerland in search of the parents who gave her up.