A number of years ago, I started looking into our family history because I know that there are relatives of note in my ancestry, and I wanted to place them in their rightful position on my family tree.  There was a Genealogy Club in our town, and a number of us were involved.

At that time, access to the internet through home computers was not what it is today at all, and we had to drive to a larger library that was over an hour away because it was known for having better resources for those who wanted to build their family tree. Now there are sites on the web so that any family tree maker can do the research they need to collect information and write their own family history.  These sites are a helpful tool to those who are thinking of writing a book based upon their family history.