You can trace your direct lines.
A chart is really helpful. You can download a chart to fill in by hand. I like the one on the lostcousins.com homepage.
You should note date of birth or year of birth and place of birth and the same for any marriages and death.
ancestry.co.uk has a good downloadable chart for this too.
You should also note where you found the information - your source.
Always use a woman's maiden name on your records.
But it is really helpful to add aunts and uncles etc as well as your direct line. It is easier to track the right family in the censuses if you know all the members of the family particularly if it is a common surname and if they moved about a lot. Family names will crop up in different generations.
We will look at Scottish naming patterns soon too.
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