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- Kate finds out her she has Scandinavian heritage and they come from Sweden and her great great great grandfather Andrew johns son was found guilty of stealing potatoes for food and had previous of stealing beehive. He was sentenced to being whipped for his crime by the whipping never took place due to his death. His son however did not follow his path but trained to become a tailor and moved to London for work. On her mother Irish side a grenadier guards drummer called William colquhounin worked at Buckingham palace and he become major and gave out punishment whipping those who stepped out of line, but had started from the bottom at age 11 and had a clean record. After service move to Devon and become Dartmoor's prison warden. Kate also tells of her childhood growing up in Devon and speaks openly about how she did not come from money growing up in reading.
- Ryan discovery she is more Canadian than she thought and that she has three generation in Canada and says she looks nothing like the male ancestor as that boat has sailed. They then show her paintings of two of her relatives in Nova Scotia, cod traders in Newfoundland and links direct to Dorset and a pub called the ship which has since been renamed.
- The origins of his familial wealth resulted in the discovery of a rich businessman who had adopted his great-grandfather after his father died in an Trap (carriage) accident and his mother died of syphilis and was classed a lunatic. Their great grandfather not a Whitehalls but Thomas Jones Phillips was an anti-democratic Conservative Party members determined to squash working-class rights of the welsh. His ancestor was part of a Conservative movement that prevent the working classes leader John Frost (Chartist) from earning the right to vote and helped bring down the local hero, who spread democracy through early Victorian Wales. While he read the Riot Act from the Westgate Inn, Phillips was shot but not killed. In retaliation they fired on the crowd killing 20 plus people. Phillips helped in the arrest of John Frost and gave evidence at his subsequent trial in Monmouth resulting in him being sentenced to death but latter transportation for life to Australia.
- Singer Cheryl traces her roots and discovers a sea-faring ancestor and a family tragedy. She also learns the story of her great-grandfather, who fought in WWI.
- In a special edition of the show, screened as part of the BBC's Hear Her Season, actress Michelle Keegan discovers her link to Gibraltar and connections to Italy and the Suffragettes.
- Olivia knows a lot about her father's family in Norfolk so investigates her mother's side. This results in a very romantic story that includes divorce, illegitimacy, and travel to and from India.
- Comedian Lee Mack researches his great-granddad Billy Mac, supposedly also known for his humour. However, his investigation leads him to World War I and a family secret.
- Musician Marvin Humes discovers shocking dark secrets about some of his Jamaican ancestors.
- In this moving episode TV's Robert "Judge" Rinder follows the story of his grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, hearing first hand testimony of the horror of Nazi forced labour camps as well as of the hope offered by a new life in Lake Windermere. Investigating the dark mystery surrounding his great-grandfather leads Robert to a small town in Latvia, where he uncovers a story of mental illness and trauma which will ultimately, he hopes, lay some ghosts to rest.
- Paralympian Jonnie Peacock looks back through the generations and ends up captivated by his four-times-great grandmother.
- Famous dancer Shirley Ballas discovers the truth about her maternal great-grandmother, the supposed black sheep of the family. She also investigates a family rumor that some of her ancestors from the slavery era were black.
- Historian David Olusoga pays his first visit to Ravensworth Terrace and investigates a vengeful lawyer, a scientist faced with financial ruin and a doctor entangled in a workhouse scandal.
- Daniel find out his Jewish ancestor was accused of fraud at a time when being Jewish, was seen as an outsider though out Europe hate speech was on the rise. He's grandfather on his mothers side owned a jewelry shop in London and after fire his grandfather was main suspect making him feel like there was not was out he wrote a note and took his own life. He also follows up on Irish ancestry.
- David Olusoga follows the residents of the house from the 1850s to 1890s, a period of rapid change. He uncovers the story of why the house changed from a single dwelling to a boarding house, a Jewish immigrant and a sad family drama.
- This edition charts the fortunes of the various residents of the house during the turbulent period from 1891 to 1945 - encompassing two World Wars and the Great Depression.
- Mary and John were born to British women and never knew their dads, who were African American GIs. Now, they embark on an emotional journey to learn about their fathers and their Black heritage.
- Sharon follows the story of her grandparents discovering what they got up to during wartime and she traces the steps of her great grandparents as they settled in America and how tragedy brought her grandmother to England.
- Mark Wright, an entertainment reporter and former footballer finds, out his grandfather's family come from Spain. Mark learns he was related to a sword fighter, who was tortured during the Spanish Inquisition because of his Jewish faith.
- Paul's grandfather's death shocked his gran goes in to early labor, she lost the baby and her life - leaving Paul's mum an orphan but Paul discovered his grandfather fell in to a canal with suspected heat attack. Paul looks in to his English father Albert's side and finds out they were singers and played banjo buskers on the streets of London in Victorian times and a street disagreement was accused of assault involving a banjo and was imprisoned. on his mothers side, his grandfather quit the British Army and joined the IRA even sending back his army medal, he was part of the road to Irish independence.
- The actress learns how her grandmother on her dad's side, Greta, acquired the middle name Verdun. On her mum's side, Jodie discovers how her great-great-grandfather worked his way up from child labourer in a coal mine to owning one.
- Comedian David Walliams learns about his great-grandfather on his father's side, a tragic shell-shocked World War One veteran, and his great-great-grandfather on his mother's side, a blind organ grinder turned successful traveling showman.
- Actress and screenwriter Ruth Jones returns to her Welsh seaside hometown to explore the fascinating family line of her great great great grandfather on her mother's side, a hardworking 19th century merchant ship captain from New Quay, and the highly successful and noble, yet cruelly ironic career of her grandfather on her father's side who worked as the secretary for the Medical Aid Society, a self-financed workers' healthcare organization which directly inspired the formation of the NHS only to eventually end up getting disbanded by the government as superfluous.
- Actress Liz Carr learns about her orphaned grandfather on her mother's side, a naval WWI veteran involved in the Northern Patrol who joined the merchant navy after the war to see the world, and her paternal Irish great-great-great-grandfather, a revered tenant farmer involved in a Ribbonist plot to assassinate the local wealthy landlord, unsympathetic to his tenant farmers' plight, in rural Northern Ireland in the 1850s.
- Comedian Joe Lycett learns about his funny and not so funny ancestors.