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I highly recommend ancestry.com. It is by far the best. It takes some time to figure out the best ways to find the info but if you ever sign up and have any question private message me and I'll give you all the tips I know. I am pretty fast now. I pay for a month or so then cancel the rebill and can go months without paying then go back on and all is left off exactly where it was when I cancelled rebill.

The pay version allows you to find the documents such as birth records, census and other people doing family trees with common ancestors and you can connect their names to your tree if you are satisfied with enough confirmation that they are indeed part of your family. The documents are jpgs and you can save them to the individual family members as well as right click and save to your computer (both ways are there forever even if you cancel rebill and at some point pay for another month sometime later down the road.

I like to save them to my computer as well as add them to the individual on the on-site family tree because when you are not in the pay mode of the site you cannot view the documents you saved to the onsite tree until you extend for another month as a paid subscriber. The free version your tree is always available to you.

I've gotten all the way back to the 1500s late 1400s on my maternal grandmother's side back to Engliand.

Hint - do not pay for the international version if you're just starting out. Pay the lowest price. There may come a time when you could upgrade for a month for more international records but I don't recommend that now. You'll be starting from present time and moving back.

PM me with any questions. I'll help you anytime.