a tangent...apologies! Do they really want to know all the truth? Why not? It can only hurt those involved and presumably most will be long gone. How much to tell of your own life - that's up to you...there are lots of things I won't be telling anyone any time soon but lots of things I'd happily tell if anyone wanted to know!!! I'm thinking specifically about my son wanting to know about me and his dad (short marriage) but he never asks so I never say... I have spent many enjoyable hours researching the family trees of my family and that of my husband. The information is contained in files but I wonder if they will be of interest to anyone else coming after me. I have told my daughters to set fire to the lot, if they want to but it would be nice to think that someone else might like to read at least part of it without thinking that they should keep all those files just out of a sense of guilt. My husband and I have recently sorted our attic, we decided to put a collection of papers in a suitcase so thet the children can find them later. Invoices from furniture when we married, old payslips with miniscule wages and various interesting newspaper articles from the last 44 years. I also made a parcel of each child's baby clothes. My daughter gave me a notebook that guides you to write a potted history of