Genealogy is relative. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, it is usually returned. My roots only go down so far, but my branches spread forever. Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
Undocumented genealogy is mythology.
Others work from sun to sun, but a genealogist's work is never done. Genealogists never lose their jobs, they just go to another branch.