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Video tutorials designed to help the family history researcher. Plus other categorised genealogy links.

30 Seconds: a Guide to Organizing Your Genealogy Files

A book by Robert R Langman.

500 Brickwall Solutions to Genealogy Problems

A book by the Publishers of Family Chronicle Magazine.

64 Genealogy Items to Collect from Your Home

A Beginner

A supplement to a 7 part lecture series, the site provides guidance, tips and links for genealogical research. Lists resources by country. Excellent coverage of both Chicagoland resources and for searching Jewish roots. Closed discussion forums.

Amazon.com - The Basic Genealogy Checklist

This book is designed to help genealogists of all types and at all stages in their search. There are several hundred tips, tactics, and online web links provided to help the beginner find the right path to get started or the experienced researcher to jump ahead to the next level.

American Ancestors - Getting Started In Genealogy

Ancestors: The First Series (1997)

Ancestry Academy ^FREE

Free online videos

Awesome Genealogy: Awesome Tips

General tips for beginning genealogists and researchers.

Beginning Genealogy Playlist - Just Genealogy - Craig R. Scott, CG, FUGA (YouTube)

Black Pearls of Genealogy - Beginners Guide - Researching African American Genealogy

Carolyn's Guide to Genealogy - Beginners Guide (Wayback Machine)

Climbing your family tree: Getting started in genealogy $

A paid course by John Boyle for those who are interesting in beginning the search of there roots and looking into their family tree.

DearMYRTLE Archives

Practical, down-to-earth advice for family historians. Ol' Myrt's focus is beginning genealogy topics. Though she blogs less and video blogs more frequently, she is your friend in genealogy.

Discover Your Origins

The Discover Your Origins website is all about finding your ancestral origins. The blog explores research strategies that can be used to find your ancestors. Family history case studies are presented to demonstrate how to apply those research strategies in real life situations. We use the online databases available through FamilySearch, Ancestry, MyHeritage, and a variety of other sites to gather information. We explore using DNA to find new connections. And finally, we pull all our research together to tell the story of our ancestors.

Family History 4 Beginners

We are a group of service-oriented like minded people from the history and genealogy communities. Our aim is to open the worlds of history and genealogy to anyone, and allow them to use our resources as well as to help each other. Our service is totally free with experts on hand to guide everyone through their family history endeavours. We aim to offer an environment whereby people can feel safe and welcome whoever or wherever they are.

Family History Federation - Research tips

From the Federation of Family History Societies.

Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Podcast

From Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems. This step-by-step podcast series for beginning genealogists also helps more experienced researchers brush up or learn something new. Listen and/or read the show notes for software choices, records research, technology tools, organization strategies and more.

Family Tree Magazine - How to Do Genealogy | 10 Steps for Beginner Family Historians