A Beginner’s Guide to
Family History Research


Getting Started: How-to Guides

Ancestors: The First Television Series: Teacher’s Guide (for students too)
http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/firstseries/teachersguide/

Ancestors: Viewer's Guide to Getting Started
http://www.pbs.org/kbyu/ancestors/firstseries/viewersguide/

GeneaLinks: Beginners Genealogy
http://www.genealinks.com/begin.htm

Genealogy.Com: Genealogy "How-To" http://www.genealogy.com/mainmenu.html


Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Finding a Marriage Date. Karen Clifford, AG
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/11_mrgdt.html?priority=0000900

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees
Guide No. 6: Birth Records

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson6_text.html

RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees
Guide No. 5: Marriage Records

http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson5_text.html

Tip 8: Local Records. Raymond S. Wright III, Ph.D., AG
http://www.genealogy.com/tip8_print.html


Census


A Beginner’s Guide to the U.S. Censuses

http://www.tngenweb.org/cntylinks/tutorial.html

Making Sense of the U.S. Census
http://www.genealogy.com/90_fs-census.html 


GENEALOGY


Ancestry.com

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/default.aspx

Cyndi’s List
http://www.cyndislist.com/index.htm

Family Search
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp

Genealogy.com
http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html

RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com/