Over the past four weeks I had the privilege to teach a class at church about starting family history projects from the first step. I noticed a lot of people were so focused on finding "new" people they were missing important details, that can not only help them find "new" people but find the RIGHT people. Here is a step by step guide on how to start a tree using Ancestry and how to begin Census research.
Always start with what you DO know and move to what you DONT know.
Ancestry TREE and Census research