Vanishing Without Trace

Tracing Your Roots by BBC

Sep 20, 201028:02Society & Culture

In the first of a new series, Sally Magnusson goes on the trail of ancestors who vanished without trace, abandoning their families either by choice or by force of circumstance. The mother who handed her three-day-old bab...

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