The census is my primary source,I make paper copies of each and store them in Surname folders. City directories and village,town,county and state records are next.I use LDS records & family search,state history and archives records,cemetary and funeral home records.Rootsweb lists & World connect. I attended an LDS course on Family History ,which was very helpful for a beginner. All of my results are entered into an online Data base "OneGreatFamily.com",which is both a repository and a source for family history.Since the data is stored online,my two computer crashes did not lose any data.Both pedigree and family charts can be printed from this source. I have probably forgotten some of my processes but family serach.org,census,roots web lists & we sites are highly used.I highly recommend contacting an LDS family history center and siging up for their free course in Family History.They are very helpful and only minor costs are involved. Doug Groner