Hide and seek was a favorite game of mine. And my mother taught me the love of finding hidden treasure as a child, when she would take me to the Herkimer NY area to dig the 'diamonds' for which that area is famous. So I found a kind of Nirvana when I discovered the gems of ancestry research, and it gives me great satisfaction to find hitherto unknown links of one person to another.
It is often a lot of long hard work, as you well know, going down enough rabbit holes just to eliminate the wrong turns. Then voilà, if we find the right ancestor it is like finding a Diamond Rabbit!
Today I have a knack -- which is mostly just the time ;) -- for combining my Findagrave researches with my Ancestry.com resources to discover "missing links".