Quote Originally Posted by jordanjm View Post
A really good website to help you get started doing geneology is http://www.familysearch.org
Unfortunately, the LDS (Mormon) genealogical archives are not as accurate as one would like. They accept almost anything that is contributed at face value, with very little in the way of quality control. While there is much that is of value, there is also much that isn't, with no way to distinguish between the two. It is a good place to start, but after you start, the next thing one would be well advised to do is to go back over everything one has gotten from it to ascertain its reliability from original sources.