Mum was interested in her Welsh ancestry, she would have loved what I have found out, but she would not have loved the fact that her parents were not married until after she was born.
Dad liked history, he would have been really pleased about all I have found about his family, going back centuries with wills to back it up. How he would have laughed that one chap inherited 'a mucke carte with 2 payre lugge wheles.'
But how could I have told him that his father, who he was told died in a fall working on a roof, had really died in an assylum....
I've inherited their enthusiasm, but I'm glad they never found out the family secrets.