There are many different resources available to family history researchers. These days, you will find quite a few of them on the internet, but all sources should and must be checked.

To begin with, the main resources that you will be accessing are birth, marriage and death certificates, census information, county directories and parish register records of baptisms, marriages and burials. You can go a long way with your research using these. Later you will learn to access other kinds of records.

In this section, you will learn all about these resources, how to find them, and which ones to trust.