Make extra copies Any source material you gather is best to be photocopied especially if they are source printed materials. File them all in folders with appropriate labels such as the name of the relative. Include the details of their birth dates and dates of death so as to be able to distinguish them between other family members who may have similar names. The usage and design of characters in the Chinese dictionary creates an interesting problem. There are so many indexing schemes which are made for the usage of Chinese characters. Most of these schemes were shown in only one dictionary which has the radicals system. You can search the Chinese character dictionary in various ways. Back then, our ancestors only use leaves and other herbs to treat wounds and infections because they still don t have the so-called antibiotics back then. We are still using this tradition in treating illnesses especially the Chinese people. If you will just trace the origin of medicines, you will be amaze that most of it actually came from herbs and plants but with modifications. After the Second World War, a big number of African ancestors migrated to the United States from the Caribbean wherein they were also considered as slaves. After you prove that your ancestor came from the Caribbean, further research about the place is needed to identify your genealogy. Tracing back one s ancestors is not an easy task. uk (for United Kingdom and Ireland)- has a 14-day free trial. It is the site for the biggest collection of records from UK. It also contains the census records from 1841-1901. Genealogical experts are also on the standby to help those who are new to genealogy. Surnamesite.com- this site contains archives of wills, obituaries, biographies, bible and funeral records, all having surnames on them. It offers 140 versions of international search engines. MSN can also be a good source. The site that claims to have the biggest collection of family history (which comes in free, thank goodness!) is FamilySearch.org. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints own this site. The site has an assistant that could help the researcher on things like getting started, downloading forms that are useful to the search (pedigree charts or family group records), showing records that are relevant to the family name search (census and vital records, marriage and even death records) and the most important to you: the category on family organizations and surnames.