Anybody else doing Genealogy work?

[Nomad]

     I'm late to this conversation, but I've been doing family research for about 15 years now on and off.  More on than off.
     I do it a bit differently than most of you I think.  I follow the branches out to 2nd cousin and stop there.  I figured out early on that going any farther would get me lost in the weeds.  I've been on Ancestry.com all this time as my primary source, along with a couple of Canadian sites.
     My paternal side is all Canadian and Continental French.  The Canadians kept excellent records back pretty much to the beginning.  The French are a bit harder to track down.
     My maternal side is much harder.  Both of her parents are pure Irish, and 1st or 2nd generation immigrants so records here are very limited.  Records from Ireland are spotty and not very exact at all.  Too much of it is guesswork to trust.
     My DNA has been on record for some time now.  The one big surprise that lead to was an adult granddaughter no one knew about, including her father.
     Lineage takes many strange twists and turns, and it isn't always pretty but it's always pretty interesting!
     I've tracked a few other trees for friends and family, sometimes finding out things they really didn't want to know.  I discourage that now.  If you don't really want to know where the trail came from, don't ask me to follow the tracks.
     My Ancestry tree is public.  I didn't do all this work to play "I've got a Secret."  I'm up to 38,000 people now, including one member here that I know of.  I do my level best to keep it accurate.
     Feel free to check it out.  Particularly if you've got old roots in eastern Canada you're likely to find some familiar names.  Ask if I can be of assistance.