Document your results.
There are a number of good tutorials available for beginners. Rootsweb's Wood County site has Help Me I Am New, How to research in PortageCo WI & WoodCoWI website, and How to navigate on a website. Family Search provides the Family History Lesson Series and Online Research Series Classes
Family Search includes free download of Personal Ancestral File. PAF allows you to quickly and easily collect, organize and share your family history and genealogy information, while PAF Companion creates charts.
Google Books has digitized many history titles.
This program can be found at : http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/programs/genealogy.html
Last revised 04/22/10