I peeked at a number of sites (too much fun not to), but settled on ancestry.com. I've been intrigued by genealogy since my junior year in high school when we had to create our family tree. I went hundreds of years beyond what the assignment required simply because someone in the family had been keeping track, and I simply enjoyed it! I've always wanted to create a more permanent place to keep that information rather than the computer paper I used to write it all down. The site works fairly well. It's easy to get lost within the family tree, but you just have to keep coming back to the home person. It's also frustrating because while the service of compiling all your family history in one spot is nice, anything beyond that does cost money. There are numerous tips connected to my family tree that the website highlighted for me, but I'd need to pay money to look at any of them...a bit disappointing.
Like I mentioned earlier, my first introduction to creating a family tree was a class assignment. This website would be an obvious aid to students with like assignments. There are tabs you can use to add family stories connected with each person, you could download pictures, and so on. Fun for someone who is interested in family history.
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