DIG: A Great Free Starting Point For Family History Noobs
FYI: Noob means "newbie" or being brand new to something. I remember when I first started my research: I was so green, I thought ancestry.com was all that was out there. I thought that after I put all my information in my tree and my free trial ended, I'd need to pay what I felt were absurd prices (which have gotten more reasonable in the past few months if you buy a subscription BTW) to keep working online. Truth is, there are many FREE resources out there that provide a vast amount of free records to search and you just need to know where to start looking from. My personal workflow (now this is my preference and not the only way) is to use Ancestry.com's online tree and attach all the records I find to it. This way, not only am I collecting records for myself, I am also making my information available for distant relatives to search and from there hopefully make new family connections and continue growing your tree. If you are confused, signing up for an acc