An article in today's "Island Packet" talks about the study of genealogy. Especially interesting and generally perhaps unknown is that our Beaufort County Library in Beaufort says they also have available the Ancestry Library Edition on their library computers. The article from the Packet is:
www.islandpacket.com/communities/bluffton/story/563601.html

For anyone interested in history, to use some of these new and exciting items connected with online genealogy gives us information about our country's history that would be almost impossible to locate just in printed books. Along the way researchers can find out many things about their own family, but that is only a small part of the much bigger picture, of how our country came to be, where we have been, and where we are now.

If one wants to use just their own home computer try these free sites:
www.familysearch.com
and
www.rootsweb.com