Greetings to all. Sometimes we forget about some of the great FREE links, resources and sites that are available for us to use to search our roots. Here are a few places that you can check for information on where and how to do your family tree. Cindi's List is a very comprehensive listing of just about everything that has to do with genealogy. There are lots of specific links that you can visit. Here is the link to it: http://www.CyndisList.com/index.htm There are also specific categories on each state there listing lots of places where you can go to find information. http://www.CyndisList.com/beginner.htm http://www.CyndisList.com/howtotut.htm Here are a couple more that you will find useful: Tennessee: http://www.CyndisList.com/tn.htm Here is the link to the county genealogy web site for Marion County, Tennessee: http://www.noelm.com/marion/home.html Every county in every state has a similar web site that has various types of information available. It is all done be volunteer labor so is FREE. Tennessee: Tennessee Genealogical Web Project: http://tngenweb.org or http://tngenweb.org/tnlinks.htm Here is the link to the United States Genealogy Web Project or USGenWeb where you can go to each state and then to each county within that state: http://www.usgenweb.org/ The USGenWeb Project also has a real good Help Section for new genealogy researchers. Here is how to get to it: http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/researcher.html http://www.usgenweb.org/researchers/starting.html This last link is real good in how to really get started in researching your roots and where you came from. Here is the link to the American Local History Network or ALHN where you can go to each state and then to each county within that state (Marion County is a member of ALHN): American Local History Network: http://alhn.org/ Here is the link to another national genealogical network the American History and Genealogical Project or AHGP where you can go to each state and then to each county within that state: American History and Genealogical Project: http://www.ahgp.org/ The above three national genealogical projects should not be look at as competiting networks. Each is different, is run by different volunteers, each has different information about its counties, and all three are great for searching your roots. Visit all three and see what is different about each county listed. You might be surprised at what you find. I hope this type of information will be of help to you. If you have any other great sources or questions let me and the list know. Cheers, Noel Matthews TNMARION Marion County, TN List Manager Marion Co, TN ALHN: http://www.noelm.com/marion/home.html