I have not included non basic expenses such as computers more about them in a later issue or trips to places one's ancestors lived, such as mounting safaris to remote African villages. Most of the time, we think of history as events that happened to other people. True, but some of them were your people. You are descended from survivors. You'll get another perspective when you interview Great Aunt Minnie, who survived the 1918 influenza epidemic and the Depression and World War II, and when you see, on their death certificates, that your great grandparents died of diseases that are curable today.
Psychologists make a living helping patients review their relationships from an adult's view.
In genealogy, it comes with the territory. You're likely to learn that your family and all others is like a sheepy sweater the Princess of Wales was seen in mostly white sheep, with an occasional black sheep. The progress of your research, or further questions that have occurred to you, will give you a permanent happy topic of discussion which may do wonders for family peace. Simon and Schuster. Searching for your Ancestors, Doane, or Doane and Bell, depending on the edition.