I think the conclusion you have to make is that some people are thrilled and entranced by family history and the (sometimes not entirely positive) discoveries one makes - and that others find these discoveries really difficult to deal with.
As in many things in life, it can be difficult to see why some people are unmoved and some people very upset about the same thing.
I've found illegitimacy and bigamy, which simply interest me - but other members of the family have been not quite so thrilled.
Most recently, in doing some research for someone else, I not only found him his long-lost cousins (alive and well and happy to hear from him
but also that they had an elder sister, whom they evidently had not heard about, who died very sadly at 4 days old.
My contact told them this, and to his horror, now believes that in passing on this information (which saddened him, as it was his baby cousin) the newly found relatives seem so upset that they have not responded to any more of his mails.
What can you say?
