I will do my best to help you get started. You will need to first gather what information you already have and organize it so that when you add and gather more information it will fit in its place. Then I went to my family members and asked a few questions about the family and then went to city hall or the court house in my area and started looking up birth, marriage, and death records and then as I fill in the information the tree starts filling in and then I get more leads. you can even try one of my sites I have made for doing genealogy and at this I also made some friends and have people who will help with searches and so on.

http://groups.msn.com/FindingEachOther

try this group page and it is free. Please don't get scared a way for I am currently working on it when I can to remodel it but it has a lot of usefull links and so on. Don't hesitate to check it all out.