To start the blog off, letting you know what tools I use (and have used) through the years when working through my ancestry seems like a good start. The research was actually started by my father back in the days when you had to order historical documents on microfilm but things are different today.
I started documenting my family tree at ancestry.com and that is still the main site where I enter and keep the information. It is a commercial site, but it is actually quite easy to use and well integrated with lots of databases. I recently also entered my ancestral tree at WikiTree because it is more in line with my principals for sharing information. It is still not as complete or well documented or sourced as the Ancestry.com tree but I am working on it.
For exploring historical documents like parish books, births, deaths, and marriages I rely mostly nowadays on Arkiv Digital, mainly due to the quality of their scans. It is a commercial site but that is acceptable in light of the work done to digitise all the information.
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