The Complete Beginner's Guide to Genealogy, the Internet, and Your Genealogy Computer Program. Updated edition

The purpose of this book is to demystify genealogy and its supportive tools - genealogy computer programs and the Internet. It is a guide for the beginning family historian. It contains the research methodology you need to start your family history research using both traditional and Internet sources. It shows you how to organize your family papers and how to enter information into a genealogy computer program of your choice so that you can easily manage, store. and retrieve your electronic data. It also shows It also shows you how to put together a Family History Archival Notebook that supports the research. archives, personal papers, and protects the evidence that supports the research hypotheses.