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26 Genealogy Tips to Get You Started

From Robert E. Bickham.

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.

:: Beginning Family History ::

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

A Beginner’s Guide to Tracing Your Family Tree

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.

Ancestors

Ancestry.com - Learn

Australian Family History Compendium - Guide

From the Australian Family History Compendium.

Awesome Genealogy: Awesome Tips

General tips for beginning genealogists and researchers.

BYU Independent Study - Free Online Courses

Carolyn's Guide to Genealogy - Beginners Guide

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's Genealogy Blog

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.

Easy Breezy Genealogy

Tips, coaching and tools to help you on your family search journey.

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 Zone - The Ultimate Dimension in Genealogy Online

An exceptional place for beginners, the Family History Zone is the ultimate dimension in genealogy and family history online. We provide content and tips on birth records, marriage records, death records, census, passenger lists, military records, probate, newspapers, directories, and much more. Everything to help connect you with your roots.

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 - Get Started

Family Tree Research for Beginners

Are you looking to start your family tree research but as a beginner you are not sure what to do? This straightforward guide will get you started and make things easier for you.

FamilySearch Wiki - A Guide to Research

This guide teaches you how to find out more about your ancestors using the records available in the Family History Library or one of the Family History Centers throughout the world. It will help you learn to identify what you know about your family, decide what you want to learn about your family, select records to search, obtain and search the records, and use the information.