I'm a real dummy when it comes to the World Family Tree issue, so I hope you will bear with me if my questions sound stupid.

How does it work, what information may be obtained from them, and how do you know which volume etc you need to search to find your family members?

Some of the names I'm interested in would be Irish, others Finnish, and Italian. Some(most from either Boston Ma area, or the Santa Clara, San Jose, Santa Cruz areas of Ca.
as well as WI, NJ, NY, ND, Montana

I can definetly suppy more information about indiduals but surnames in MA: O'Donnell, Bradley, Doherty, Lynch, Nelson, Piispanen, Kotarski, Sarratora, Bacon, In CA: O'Connor, Bradley, Winterhalder, Lawlor, Thorpe, Sinnott.

Thank you so much for any help suggestions, I do appreciate it.

Barbara