What got YOU started?

So the question of the day/month is : What got YOU started in genealogy and family history research?

Each of us has a unique experience, close family member, flash of inspiration, special moment or reason to do the digging (no pun intended) for our ancestors and I'd like to hear your stories. Was it something that fascinated you in your youth, as you listened to stories of the "olden days"? Did you grow into the interest as you began to wonder how your grandparents met or why a Great Aunt wasn't buried by the rest of the family? What prompted you to start recording the information? Was it the annual Memorial Day trips to the family cemetery plots? Or did a relative pass the information to you for safekeeping? Are you the one always asking questions out of natural curiosity, so you began the search for the ancestral village of the immigrant ancestor for a school project? Or something else all together? TELL US!