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Podcasts with an association to genealogy, family history, adoption, identifying unknown people. Those mysteries that involve delving into family lore, record archives, or using DNA testing to find someone's identity. "The Wedding Detectives" from BBC Radio 4 is unable to be added at this time.

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Created April 03, 2024

Updated April 03, 2024

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  1. Family Ghosts

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    Every house is haunted. In each episode of Family Ghosts, we investigate the true story behind a mysterious figure whose legend has followed a family for generations. Grandmothers who were secretly jewel smugglers, uncles who led double lives,
    SocietyCulturePersonal Journals

  2. The Mysterious Case of Fred the Head

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    They say that in the case of a mysterious death the first 48 hours are critical. If investigators don't get a lead in this time - the chances of solving the crime are greatly diminished.But what if you don't get a lead in in the first 48 hour
    True CrimeHistory

  3. The Mysterious Case of the Gentleman of Heligoland

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    In July 1994, the body a man was fished out of the North Sea, near the German Island of Heligoland. Dressed smartly and with a complete absence of identifying information, the body was simply named ”The Gentleman”. Nearly thirty years later is
    True Crime

  4. Ghost Story

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    1921
    Host Tristan Redman is a seasoned journalist who doesn’t believe in ghosts. But weird things happened in the bedroom he lived in as a teenager. When he discovers years later that subsequent occupants of the same house have been visited by the g
    True Crime

  5. Nellie's Baby

    Kirsty Johnston follows Sarah as she hunts for her biological mother, who turns out to have been an institutionalised mental health patient in Porirua Hospital. And that's only the start of the story.
    True Crime

  6. DNA Surprises

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    Welcome to DNA Surprises, a podcast that delves into the world of unexpected DNA discoveries. I'm your host, Alexis Hourselt. In July 2021, my life took a surprising turn when I found out I'm an NPE—a person who's experienced a non-paternal eve
    SocietyCulture

  7. The Gift

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    Without us realising, an enormous DNA database has been created online. It holds the secrets of your true identity and promises to reveal untold family connections. But what happens when online ancestry tests reveal more than you had bargained
    SocietyCulture

  8. Relative Unknown

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    From the creators of Root of Evil comes a new documentary series about the stories and family we can't escape. Jackee Taylor has been hidden in WITSEC, better known as the Witness Protection Program, for almost 40 years. But after a strange and
    SocietyCulture

  9. All Relative: Defining Diego

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    Defining Diego is the story of one Guatemalan adoptee and his mother, a reporter who documented their journey from his earliest steps, as they try to understand how international adoption boomed and busted, and what it all means for families li
    SocietyCulture

  10. Washed Away

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    A podcast that breathes new life into Washington state's coldest cases. Host, Ashley Smith, talks to experts and family members. Can she help solve these mysteries or have all the answers been... washed away?
    True CrimeHistory

  11. Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo

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    Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joi
    True Crime

  12. Jungle Prince

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    For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?
    SocietyCultureDocumentary

  13. You Look Like Me

    Donor conceived journalist, Louise McLoughlin, delves deeper into the secrets, discoveries, and lives of donor conceived people while trying to find the man who, presumably, looks like her.
    SocietyCultureDocumentary

  14. Bear Brook

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    Jason Carroll is serving life in prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. The only evidence against him? His own taped confession. More than 30 years later, is it possible to get to the truth – and who gets to tell it?More at bearbrookpo
    True Crime

  15. What About Holly?

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    It was a January afternoon in 1981 when a man’s German Shepherd came upon a grisly discovery in the woods outside of Houston: the badly decomposed remains of a young man, beaten to death, and a woman, who was strangled. For 40 years, the victim
    True CrimeSociety

  16. DNA: ID

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    We all hear stories almost daily now about cold cases being solved by investigative genetic genealogy. This new crime-solving tool answers the “who” question about these often decades-old crimes... but what about the why? This podcast will lo
    True CrimeSocietyCulture

  17. Murderous Roots with Denise & Zelda

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    Murderous Roots is not just another true crime podcast. While Denise and Zelda do go through the crimes committed, they explore family history of the criminals, and sometimes the victims, too. What made these men and women commit horrendous cri
    True CrimeHistory

  18. Hello, John Doe

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    At age 45, Steve Patterson made a shocking online discovery: his own missing person’s page.Desperate to uncover why he had been included on the list, Steve called Todd Matthews, a missing-persons investigator, in search of answers. Together,
    True CrimeSociety

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