I highly suggest giving yourself the free two week trial with ancestry.com and going nuts.  Get as much as you can in those two weeks if you don't want to pay for membership.  Setting up your tree on there definitely helps.  I found that setting up my tree allowed me to gather information from other people's trees without having to do the original heavy lifting.  You get the back up information along with it to, so you aren't just taking their word for it.

familysearch.org is okay.  it's a little hit and miss.

I love this goal!  I may think about taking this one on in the future.  I am mostley curious about my fathers side of the family, as I know little about them. Great goal and good luck!

Great Goal! I want to do this too! Please keep us updated on what kinds of methods you are using! I dont' know where to start.

Haven't checked in on this goal in a while, but it just happens that my daughter, for her third-grade social studies project, has to do an ancestry board. So looks like I'll be catching up on this one sooner rather than later. Isn't it cool how you have a goal in mind for "sometime" and then life steps in and makes it a priority?

I will be sure to update what I find out! She may end up having the most intricate project of all her classmates, just because I'm so interested in re-creating what I'd done in school and lost. Should be cool to find out again where we link back to. Any advice welcome! Working Mama, have you been pursuing this recently? I'd love your direction. Jumping Crow, I'm not sure where to start either, but I am going to begin with my grandparents' names, birth and death dates, and to try to fill in all their siblings' names (which will be quite the list). I'll keep you posted! Thanks for the encouragement.

Excellent idea!