Step 1= check reference aids

□ research outlines and handbooks = "how-to", research methods
[start with those tried and tested at free at www.familysearch.org]

□ library inventories = availability and access of records
[start with world’s largest= FHL Catalog online (see GW group on FHLC)]

□ maps, gazetteers, finding aids = geography, locations, changes of place names