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Still a good deal. You don't have to colonize a planet, you're 50 biological years younger than you would have been and you have knowledge of that past that may have been lost. Your immediate family is probably with you, so you just time traveled and brought your loved ones, which is basically unheard of even in fiction. On top of that, you're the kind of person that would jump into the dark to see what was there, so now that there's FTL you can do that on a grander scale. This is a good deal all around.
Depending on the population of the travellers, they're first hand sources of what would be ancient history. There is nothing more valuable. What life was like, what people did, why the decisions were made, what consequences did the creation of such a program have, what was the architecture really like, what was popular media, what was popular comedy. The historic cultural aspects alone would write books.
God Id take a pay cut and change careers to get a chance to interview ancient Egyptians if we had a clear way to communicate.
Change that to ancient Sumerians and I'll join you.