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Geoff
Get yourself a good genealogy program to store and keep track of your information right from the start. I use one called BrothersKeeper.
If your ancestors are spreadout over a number of countries, like mine were, I enlisted the aid of a "consultant". The one I used charged by the document she produced. Provided you use them for very targetted research and documents they are not that expensive. I used one near Sydney and she was great for getting some NSW documents, then helped heaps when I then moved over to Europe.
If you can, create a small web page. I had mine hosted in the user section of my ISP at the time. (This was provided as a free service to members, but was still searchable.) Over the space of about 3 years I got 900 hits from people researching the same line. It was essentially free for all the information that exchanged hands. This ended up being one of my better collection points. And it was excellent for filling in all those annoying little gaps that you tend to have. I didn't make it very fancy, but it worked well.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Darrell
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