How long have you been researching your Genealogy?

[Erato]

About 25 years.  Before that, I did have some knowledge but not through my own efforts.  I had copies of family history sketches written by both of my paternal grandparents and a bare-bones tree for the paternal side of my mother's family prepared by a distant relative.  So, when I began my own digging, a lot of the groundwork had been done and it has proved to be mostly accurate.  I have worked on expanding their trees and putting flesh on the bones.

[goldie61]

If you want to  do this as a serious poll, and get realistic results from it, you are going to need to have to change the parameters you have set at the beginning of the post.
As you will see just from these first few replies, many people have been researching for much, much longer than 10 years, (the last box you can click on).
In the days before computers, and databases on computers, it took much more effort and time - visiting record offices, churchyards, etc. Even now, there is a vast amount of information to be found still not at the tap of a button on a computer.
I'd have to tick the 'over 40 years' box.
And yes, there are still things to be discovered even now!

[Kiltpin]

1999/2000 - My wife and I had a lot of "Family Myths" in our respective families - that's when we decided to prove or disprove them. 

Regards 

Chas

[BillyF]

I`m not sure if this was the start of my foray into my family history, but I went to Somerset House in 1966 to check a birth.

I`ll just say I was shocked by my findings, but didn`t take it any further.

I started in  earnest in 1993, I don`t think I`ll ever finish !!

[franh1946]

I started in 1983, in order to debunk a family myth (turned out not to be a myth!) but by then the bug had bitten and I've never stopped. Fran

[maddys52]

My first attempt was in Primary School for a school project, by talking to relatives. I started researching written records over 40 years ago, and since retirement have been able to really advance my research, about 10 years. 

[carol80]

My Nana died in 1964. That is when I became interested. It was not until my son was born in 1977 that I was really interested. I started searching in 1980 and have not stopped.
Carol

[tazzie]

My grandad gave me some copies of old family certificates when I was about 13/14. On a visit to his sister I was gifted some family photo's and as I could then put names to faces I began to get hooked.
 Life then got in the way and then 23 years ago whilst expecting our first son i had that ....where did I come from moment and dive in and out of my research when ever I can.
So to say 10 years is unbelievable I wonder what 40 years make me.

 Tazzie

[antiquesam]

My mother, and everyone on my maternal side, had gone by the time I was eighteen. My father was a merchant mariner and I was at college so all the memorabilia went when we got rid of the house. I knew very little about my father's past and never got around to asking him before he died when I was twenty seven. I started showing an interest in my heritage at the age of 59, just before retiring at sixty, with no background or information at all. I'm now 72 and am still finding people, but I really would like to delve deeper into the lives of those people. I've come up with some amazing bits of information but there's always more.