Each one of those people had a name (and a life, and thousands of ancestors themselves).
How many names of these 32,000 do you know?
While for many of my lines, I know the names to the 1600s and further.
Other lines dead end in the mid-1800s…what stories am I missing because of these all these dead ends?
Enough to bore my family! Genealogy is fun, at least for me...
With modern technology, it's easier than ever to dig into the primary sources and find out more about your ancestors.
But I would warn everyone to stay away from the big commercial genealogy companies. For one, they have extremely bad privacy practices (they will never, ever, stop spamming you), for the other, they have no interest in the truth and will happily tell you what you want to hear to keep you as a customer (they encourage very bad genealogical practices).
I use them for pointers to resources.
Archive.org is my primary research tool.
That is, assuming the officially recorded parents are the actual biological parents. It's not nice to talk about in polite society, but sometimes people are mistaken about biological parenthood, most often fatherhood but sometimes motherhood too (think: babies swapped at the hospital). All it takes is one error to invalidate the whole line behind it (though, eventually the line will hit your ancestors again anyway).