Belonging to several website groups, including FaceBook, I always recommend the Rootsweb message boards to newbies. The hard core Rootsweb members cut to the heart of the research and are generous with excellent ideas and experience. My impression of FB is sort of like Ancestry hits: tons of blather but not much depth. Rootsweb's more focused postings are always read but FB only when I have a lot of time to cruise the chatty postings. To be fair, I've gotten helpful info from both. Posted by a diehard Rootsweb fan, Maureen (If you don't know what blather is, you aren't Irish enough.)