I know very little about my family where do I start?

I know very little about my family where do I start?

A lot of people don't know a huge amount about their family, either through estrangement or death of parents and grandparents, or just lack of interest or from having moved away. This is where you have to go right back to basics and start with yourself again, maybe your own birth certificate to find out or confirm your parents' names. Once you've found their names, check to see whether they're married. Their marriage certificate will give you their age and the names of both fathers. That will allow you to then look for their birth certificates and the process then repeats itself. There is a very logical stepping stone process, just because you don't know much about yourself doesn't mean you can't do family history. It just means you have to start looking for records much closer at the beginning of your research.