That's great what you've found! I'm afraid that my own geneaology interest was there for many years before I actually acted on it. I had been told a few times when I was growing up that our family was (at leat partly) of Scots-Irish origin, but nobody seemed to be able to provide any more detail beyond that statement. By the time I finally got around to my own genealogical excavations, many of my older family members who would have had great bits of information to share had passed on. Still, I've been able to find a number of interesting things - things of which even my own mother and father were unaware.

One thing that I've done recently was get involved in my local geneaological society. My local library, too, has a remarkably good geneaology section and has free access to online research tools like Ancestry.com.