You’ll never believe it,’ my Aunt Elle cried.
‘We’ve found a brother your grammy didn’t know she had – in America!’
Elle, then 39, explained she’d taken an ancestry DNA test. Amazingly she’d matched with a man called Tim, in Idaho, US. After Elle messaged Tim online, they’d discovered he was a brother of my nan, Donna, then 76.
‘That’s incredible,’ I gasped. I’d always thought it heartbreaking that my lovely nan, or Grammy as I usually called her, grew up never knowing her real father.
Grammy told me that her mum, Margaret, my great-grandma, met a soldier called Lyle