Hi, new here
No and yes it can get costly, but there is lots of free sites on line that can help. here are some sites to get you started, if you need some help I will do my best to help. I love doing family history I just found a new cousin last week. When I was growing up we traveled alot my dad was in powerline business. So we did not really know family other then my moms side. Well goos luck... Kaye
Here are some family history sites
http://www.lds.org
http://www.genhomepage.com/
http://www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/full_index.htm
http://www.cyndislist.com/lds.htm good site
http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/default.asp
http://www.ancestry.com/landing/search1_blue.htm
http://www.gedlink.com/v2/welcome/default_gedlink.asp
http://usroots.com/ Good site
http://www.familysearch.org/
http://genealogyresources.iwarp.com/
http://hometown.aol.com/bbbenge/front.html
http://www.lineages.com/
http://kidscollecting.about.com/cs/familyhistory/
http://hometown.aol.com/bbbenge/front.html
http://www.usgenweb.org/statelinks.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/roots-l.html
http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/uscensus.html
http://www.rootsweb.com/~census/states.htm
http://surnames.obitlinkspage.com/
http://www.freesurnamesearch.com/search/worldwide.html
http://www.geneanet.org/
http://surnames.obitlinkspage.com/
http://www.obitcentral.com/
http://www.genealogytoday.com/
http://genealogyresources.iwarp.com/
http://www.familyhistory.com/
http://www.genhomepage.com/FHC/fhc.html
http://home.ptd.net/~nikki/cwlinks.htm civil war links
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/
http://cpcug.org/user/jlacombe/mark.html