Without a plan, it's easy to become overwhelmed. Anything that they've saved. The next step is to organize it all. One advantage to organizing with software is you can print it out from time to time. If your computer crashes, which has happened to me, then you've at least got a copy of everything.
Every week seems to open up a new discovery.
Naturally, in an endeavor where records don't always fall easily into place, unexpected pitfalls occur. Though well-intentioned people contribute what they believe is true to various online genealogies, the information is not always verified. There is a lot of misleading information in family trees because, quite simply, people make mistakes. In some instances you'll even get into the records themselves, at other times they'll have charts and lists of names for you. Their database is fantastic.