Start with your own family and go back as far as you can with what your parents and grandparents have left you or can tell you - then when you get alll you can from family (including uncle - aunt and cousins)- start researaching at court houses - birth, death, marriage and divorce records, land records and wills. This will keep you busy - in the meantime -since you are on internet work with others who are researching as on the rootsweb. Good luck Ruth At 12:56 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >how do a person get started researching their tree >