always wanted to research my ancestors but having grown up in foster homes then its hard ot get the records especially as those records seem to have dsappeared for the most part and I have only a few pages of reports from social services
Just hope that once you get past the first hurdle, that you can plug into work that is already in process by your relatives.
The good news is that this is getting a lot easier today than it used to be, when you had to drive to every courthouse and cemetery.