Genealogy Starting Points on the Internet

[gilmore]

Visit your local library's genealogy department. Most library genealogy departments have free classes on a wide variety of genealogical research topics, and good networks to obtain sources via interlibrary loan...

It has been my experience that very, very few libraries will share their genealogical books---other than the more general works about history--- via the interlibrary loan program. Most are printing in small runs, and I was told that they are stolen too often, or rather, not returned by the borrower.