I’m addicted to this show. Last year I connected with my long lost daughter from Lancashire, England, UK( now in Northern Ireland) She has 2 kids and that makes me a grandpa. It changed my life for evermore, in a great way...
Jamie I am so happy for you...I had a brother reach our to me after my mother had passed away because he was given up for adoption and it was the best excitement ever...I had know we had a brother but wasnt sure how to find him...But I'm so happy he reached out to me...He found me in 1997 after our mom had passed away but he was able to meet our dad and be in each other's lives until our dad passed too like 7 years later...But I'm glad he had that time with him...💗
Taiwi is a True Clare man . I love the way he went to the grave yard. Have to say your traditions of honouring your ancestors is great. From an Irish woman
@@peggykendell6805Great .It is the best discovery of all time. It can solve missing persons, prove relationship and solve crimes. And, he way they can use dna to go back in time and show dna traits to show what people oozed like. Fantastic.
I loved what Tiwai said at the cemetery, “I’ve returned today, to bring the spirit of my great great grandfather.. To lay amongst his Irish ancestors..” oh, my heart.♥️ beautiful story and reunion with his relatives.
I am a Kurdish American but every time I see someone do the Hakka, I feel such a strong spiritual energy go through me. It’s possible that it comes from a past connection/reincarnation. That graveyard ritual had me in tears!
As I watched this series, I was in tears seeing how Tiwai got connected to the spirit of his forefathers and said goodbye. I did not realize how strong the Maori culture is. Not just in rugby! The sisters story is so moving! so well presented
The Maori culture is very strong. If you mess with one, you are messing with them all. But they are also a caring culture. They can be either your best friend or your worst enemy but only if you brought it on to yourself.
I’m a kiwi who’s living in west Clare and I’m not far from where Tiwai’s great great grandfather came from. It was fantastic to see him come over to find his Irish roots and what it meant to him spiritually to do so.
Some women steal the kids from the dad. My dad's ex was all fine and good until my brother was born looking identical to my dad's youngest with the ex. The problem was her other son who clearly wasn't my dad's kid looked nothing like them. Instead of admitting she cheated and passed of another man's kid, she just took them and dissapeared. I found them 30 years later. They still don't know one isn't really a brother.
Maybe a lot of mothers are the reason that a lot of fathers have no contact with their estranged children. Without knowing all the facts , how can you possibly make a statement like that.
You know.... in all the hate and angst and negativity in the world today... it is just sooo good to see these heart warming stories. I know that all stories don't end perfectly, but to see the happiness in the ones we see here just fills the heart.
I'm so fascinated about the different reactions of all those human beeings who are finally united by one and the same intention to find someone beloved. Each time it's overwhelming me and my tears are running down and in the mean time I feel so beeing alive, because this is what it takes , to have emotions. Today I was too much impressed by this spiritual gentleman who grew up in New Zealand and looked for his relatives from Ireland. It touched me deeply inside , how he visited them in the graveyard with so much respect and inner relationship towards them and which kind of ceremony he did standing at their graves. Today I learned a lot about maorian culture , my respect 🙏🏽❣
Every story with David Lomas touches my soul. Found my mom this summer & my three half siblings. When my mom & I hugged it filled me up to the brim. It was exactly what these long lost ones feel when they hug. Beautiful, just beautiful life.
Absolutely wonderful reaction from Tiwai's relatives in Ireland, loved it when the lady said oh would love to go over and meet him...warm people and loved Tiwa's song to Ireland
Was so touched by Tiwai's dignity and Honourable conduct. What an amazing guy! And what an awsome family gathering that will be! A coincidence I share with the young woman who was looking for her father....the otherside of the world....when trying t find my biological father... all I get is 'hits' about a well known singer....n can't get any further! I'm in my 60's now...n time running out.
Is extraordinary. I was lost and found before watching Lost and Found documentaries. Many blessings to all the makes it possible. And thank You for the upload
It’s heartbreaking how many children’s lives have had traumas, abandonment issues due to self centered “parents” that leave their children in the dust! That to me is a very low, heartless person The pain runs so deep in these adults, young or old after decades of knowing their so called “parent” abandoned them 😢
I too have Irish in my not too distant family tree. My grandfather emigrated from Ireland in the early 1910s. I remember him as a young kid with wire rim spectacles and sitting in his lap. He worked in the shipyards his whole life. When he died I clearly remember being upset because he was the first close relative to pass and I was old enough to grasp the concept of death.
I'm guessing Robert had regrets on leaving his son the 1st Dave behind, that's why he named he second son David as well. Losing the younger David probably felt like losing his son all over again.
Well, let's not be over dramatic, he never actually lost his 1st son. He CHOSE never to have contact with him again after sending that card with $5 in it. ...which by the way, isn't enough money to raise a child.
I wish someone could have helped my dad find out what happened to his mother who was from Lancashire, who went off the radar in 1932 when he was 9 years old. She came to visit him in a boys home in Melbourne and told him she'd see him in 6 months time. He never saw her again in his life. He died when he was 81.
Such strange people.... they have no idea what they're doing to their children. Maybe she passed away within those 6 months....anything is possible - but to not leave ANY contact Info is very unfortunate.
My mom hid the fact she had knowledge of my father. I am now 28 and apparently its too late. All those nights as a child I cried myself to sleep wondering where was my father. My tribe? My people? Today I find out his name, story, and I just believe I will reach out to connect with my relatives on his side. I am just not sure if I want to redig those emotions. I am afraid of rejection. What if he or they dont want to connect? I am over 6000km away. Will they like me? I dont know how to feel about this. Is my mom right to hide this? She said my biological father wasn't interested to know. Could she have lied? Did he change his mind? Did he ever wonder about me? I feel so lost.
I have been to this small place in Ireland 🇮🇪 so secluded your lucky to have found what you did. Blessings to you and all your family in the future. ENGLAND UK
I am glad David found his sister's and I hope this will bring them close again. I found that story the most fascinating because of my own family fracturing as I look back at family photos of us before we fractured we always lined up in family photos in the same way we fractured. Twice when the sisters lined up the one stood a little apart from the other 3. The strange thing is as I look at my family photos we didn't stand in one group pitted against the other. 2 of us stood a little separated from the others because we felt excluded. When the fracturing happened we were the 2 left out.
I can't even imagine having a baby on the way and a kid then leaving for another country. I'd stay in touch for sure with my children and fly them out to be with me and mist definitely go see them.
Hello have been watching this RU-vid about long lost family and I hope they open their doors to each other and welcome and respect each other love one another cause children are involved with your own life as they growing up to let them know where they come from! their happiness respect love couragement thank you God Bless you all
Wow I Injoy watching this program.Sir.Thank you to sharing the amazing stories of lost and found. Your Amazing to choose this program a lot people Happy Met each other.💔❤️🥲🥲🥲watching Washington D C. God bless you Sir.🇺🇸🇵🇭
I don't have any connections to New Zealand but the Maori language and traditions always make me tear up. I hope I can one day visit this beautiful country and experience its amazing people and culture
Ddamm iam a grown man and I have tears everytime I watch this show lol 😆 great show so happy to watch these family's get back together God bless them all
David is an amazing person and he has given so much back to all these people who are searching for their loved ones. Thank you David for the blessings of a New chapter in there life.
I don't find the format of this show empathatic to the people featured. The host is cold. The over dramatic music does not seem well suited to the delicate subject matter. Reveal of sensitive information in front of camera is the worst part. Very exploitive
I also like 'Long List Family' better for their sensitivity in giving people bad news off camera...also leaving some of their more private moments private. Why they both keep people in suspense to give what good news there is I don't know,except that it draws the viewers...at times like that a moment can seem an eternity!
These shows blood is always thicker than water! And for those who spent time looking for their lost loved ones be blessed and enjoy the journey. Life is too short to not to give a second chance and to carry grudges. To Mr David thank you for giving these people assistance. God bless and always good health and be safe!
I didn't get that feeling at all. He never even saw his 2nd daughter until she was 6 or 8 or something. If he was still into his ex, he would have SURELY kept in touch better.
I don't know why, everytime I hear a haka , I weep from my soul. I wish I knew why. My grandmother was the same way anytime she tried to visit Bodie. The closer she got to the town, the worse it would be for her. Strange.
@@mrsfiat6521 perhaps or just picking up on the massive amount of pure emotional energy demonstrated when they do it. Its intensity is like level 10 on a 1-10 scale.
Glad to see that Tiwai found his Irish side. Not so easy to connect or reconnect with family you never knew. Genealogy and family ancestry research can be so exciting. One of my coworkers from the United States took a trip to Ireland (his ancestral homeland from a few generations back). While in Ireland, he got drunk in a bar and said offensive things and jokingly tried to imitate the stereotypical Irishman (something he learned in American culture). The Irish people didn't tolerate it. They ran him out of the bar and accused him of being a stereotypical arrogant American. He took his ignorance and returned to the US regretting his trip.
@@ellieantar809 We see so many weird stereotypes on TV about people from nonWestern cultures and in the past the media has socialized us into believe it. This is why I love RU-vid. We actually get to see videos made by people from Africa, Asian countries, Latin American countries, Middle Eastern, India, Britain, Eastern Europe, and etc. Their videos give us a more realistic non-stereotypical narrative of different cultures.
David looks so much like his dad, and looks like fraternal twins run in the family. Very sad his brother lost his life in the fire at such a young age. So tragic.
Years ago I worked for a private investigator who specialized in finding missing people and sadly it was so frustrating to us that men waited too long to look for their birth parents.
Oh that's right! His father had twins too!!! I missed that part, that he named his 2nd son David too. That definitely was a nice gesture. ....but still odd he wouldn't just keep in touch with his first son David.
While I'm glad Dave found his sisters and learned about his dad, Bob, I must say I think Bob was a really selfish piece of work. Dave's mom and his sisters are more forgiving than I think I would be.
All these years i knew my biological father i knew that i had 3 brothers and a sister from his side the only sad side about it is that i am 45 years old and i met them a month ago at his funeral i had a warm welcome into the family but i haven't met my sister yet and we about 300 km away from each other.
