Where do I start?

[gilmore]

I would also checkout familysearch.org it is the Mormon church website, and any of their family history libraries would be good too. They can order microfilm from the main library in Salt Lake City, so you can get access to all of those files. They have helped me to track my McGilvray line back to 1795.

While the LDS records MAY be a good place to start, they are HIGHLY unreliable. EVERYTHING you come across there MUST be verified by at least 2other sources, and often that means the incorrect source that familysearch.org got its information from, and a source with the correct info.

I have watched Mormons at work. It's often bored teenagers doing their religious duty as quickly as possible in order to get out of there and on to something else that they find more pleasant.

I have a cousin who says that he never accepts information until he can at least hold the original document in his hands. And sometimes, as in the US census records, even that is not always correct.