Ancestry.com has definately been a help for me, and now I'm looking for a Mac compatable gen software package. I have 3 generations that have more then 10 children per generation, so having a place to map everything would really be helpful.

Genweb and Ancestry have been very valuable in checking my records against others.

Derek--it IS kind of daunting when first begining, but its like what they say about eating an elephant--one bite at a time. I'm no where near where I know I could be in my family research, but I'm just finding one fact/individual and going to the next.

My family had a family genealogy published in 1926 that has in some ways been very helpful, yet the 'seeds' of our family prior to coming to America had always been no more than a guess.

After just 2 months interacting on gen-web sites I found the pre-cursor to the first in our family here AND found out he was from Scotland when our book surmised his family came from Sweden.

Problem is...add this to my kilt addiction and then add my highland games insanity and well, too darn bad I have to spend at least a few hours each day at work ;-)