After watching Relative Race every time, I always want to talk to people about it. I watch it on Sunday nights with my husband and youngest child who is 15. After the show, I talk about it with them, and then I text my friend Mindy with a few comments. She watches it on Sunday nights with her family too. Then I watch the video recap done by Cheri Hudson Passey of GenFriends YouTube Channel that come out in the following week. If you are a Relative Race fan like I am, you will love watching this! This particular season seems extra special with two mother/daughter teams and two uncle/niece teams. That’s the first time we’ve had such a combination, and I believe the first time we’ve had so much estrogen with 6 out of the 8 contestants being females.

Here’s a recap of Season 15 Episode 1. Thanks to Cheri Passey and her family history buff gals for getting together for this. If you don’t know what Relative Race is, go watch it here and get all the feels of family reunion love. It’s basically a reality TV show of teams racing to find relatives they never knew existed, mostly because of adoption issues.

Want more Relative Race?

Go here for a recent video interview with Dan, the host, from RootsTech 2025.

Go here for some firesides with Dan and Rebecca of Team Black, Season 3. (Did you know she works for the show now behind the scenes?), and then Jen and J.D. Barnes, Team Black of Season 6.

Here’s Rebecca’s story since she won Season 3.

Go here for other recaps.

Here are some fun excerpts of the show so you can know how wonderful it is.

I’m always sad when a season ends and then we have to wait 6 months or so for the new season. I’m glad we can watch old episodes in the meantime. I often watch the old ones on Sundays after my church meetings while I work a jigsaw puzzle. The puzzle theme of finding missing pieces matches the theme of finding missing family members. I love all of it!