Elders serve as the best historians

If you have any interest at all in your family history I suggest that you start talking to the older members of your family, they will be the one best sources of your family history. Along with talking to family members and using the tools available on the internet such as websites and computer programs, also try the DNA. If you do try the DNA besides doing the test on yourself you might want to get others in your family tested. I got my mother a test after I did mine and her results are a good bit different from mine. I was able to find several hundred of my ancestors just using the tools...