Helpful Genealogy Tips and Sites

Well for all beginners let me state the obvious..............Ask Your Family!! Ask for birthdays, names, stories, places, any and everything you can get out of them. List as far back as you can on 4 main surnames.
Either your husbands dads last name and mothers maiden and your parents. Or do your grandfathers last names and grandmothers maiden names. Either way start with a basic 4 lines of research. Pick one to go with and..............Start A TREE.

Always make sure to list obvious info first. Full name, birth and death dates and places.
Then go back and do more details, occupations, marrige dates, war info, medical history and all that. Immigration, passenger lists and all that stuff that soon gets majorly complicated and makes your brain hurt, BUT You Still LOVE It!!!

Ok now for some helpful links............you can start a free tree on ancestry.com
you can also subscribe to the site or get the free trial. I haven't but I would if I could afford it. But there are also lots of other great FREE sites.
My heritage.com has a great tree program you can dowload for free it is awesome and the one I use now.
As far as research I think Rootsweb.com is really starting to move up. Seems most of there info is on target and lists valuable citations, or resources. And has some stories. It brings up websites and you can search by county and what not.
Others worth mentioning genforum.com, accessgenealogy.com, usgenweb.org.

And don't forget to search the person on google, search the town they were from, find out all the juicy interesting stuff. Find famous ancestors, find people of your past who did great things. It completes you. Thanks for reading if anyone does. There will be much more.