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Surfing Genealogy Style - Finding Your Ancestors on the Internet

From the About.com genealogy section.

Susans Genealogy Blog

A genealogy blog tailored for beginner to professional audiences, and featuring research tips, trials, frustrations, and successes.

The Folk Historian

Help for beginning and experenced researchers.

The History Slice - Getting Started

The Old Front Porch - Family History

Genealogy how to information and unique research message boards geared towards how to and sharing progress in your research.

Things I Hate and Love About Genealogy and Family History

Tips & Tricks for the Beginner - Genealogy 101

Tracing Your Family Tree

By Brian W. Hutchison for the Alberta Family Histories Society.

Tracing Your Family Tree

Article geared towards people beginning to trace their family tree with actual examples of why you should and shouldn't do things a particular way. Also includes some great family photographs - READ, HANSEN & BUTCHER. The author is from Australia.

Ultimate Beginners Guide to Genealogy

Getting started with genealogy

What Are Archives?

From the Archives Center of the National Museum of American History.