Don't Reinvent the Wheel
Double check all information you're given, but see if others are researching the same family
- Guild Of One Name Studies – http://www.one-name.org/register.shtml
- FamilySearch Family Tree – https://www.familysearch.org/tree/find/name
- Society for One-Place Studies – https://www.one-place-studies.org
- WikiTree – https://www.wikitree.com/
Copyright does matter
- Australian Copyright Council advice – https://www.copyright.org.au
- Privacy, Copyright & Sharing: tips for genealogy – http://www.judywebster.com.au/privacy.html (Judy Webster)
- The Legal Genealogist: Copyright – https://www.legalgenealogist.com/category/copyright/ (Judy Russell)
Internet and the World Wide Web
Use a localised search engine to restrict hits to your country of interest - eg try google.com.au or google.co.uk rather than the more general google.com
Also, try adding into your search "family history" (in quotes) or genealogy (even mis-spelling it 'geneology' finds a few)
- Search Engines for Genealogical Research – https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Search_Engines_for_Genealogical_Research
- Google (Australia) – http://www.google.com.au (also try .co.uk & .co.nz)
- Google Alerts – http://www.google.com.au/alerts?hl=en
- Google Genealogy Searcher – http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html (useful, but be wary of disguised links to Ancestry.com)