The most important thing that you can do to get started with your family history and genealogy is to obtain/buy a computer program to store your genealogical information. It will benefit your research if you use a program that can manage your family history and genealogy data with ease.

Please take a look at the two programs below.

Here’s a link to an article for the “Best Free Genealogy or Family Tree Software“. Good information and explanation of several programs that are available.