Resources for tracing your Family Tree and Ancestry

At Fulton History, use boolean search for best results. Use and, or, and not. For example, when searching for Lydia, the results are flooded with ads for Lydia Pinkham's beauty products. So to avoid the extra results, you can enter: "Lydia and Smith and not Pinkham", or you can enter "Lydia w/10 Smith" to find the two words within 10 words of eachother. The site has a FAQ help index at the top of the page. Reading it could save you lots of time and help you produce more finds.