I got interested in genealogy in the early 2000's when I turned up a long lost hand drawn family tree from the 1970's.

I found several loose family registers in an old family bible from even older bibles. One listed birth, marriage, and death dates for my MOTT 3x great grandparents and all their children, but no spouses. It took me a decade to finally find the last aunt. I was finally able to match her dates to a memorial at findagrave.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94928900/mary-emeline-reilly