Welcome to you from southern Arizona. Land of the big cactus.
I am an amateur genealogist. My dad started his interest in genealogy in the 1960s and wasn't able to do much with it until he retired in the 1980s. He published 2 books, one his father's, another his mother's famlies. I became interested about 1995 and have discovered much about DHs family.
Again welcome to this wonderful bunch of ladies - men too.