What Does Researching Family History Mean?

This means researching and collecting all the information you can find on your family.
You will need to start with yourself and your parents and hopefully your grandparents.
It means finding and databasing all known births, marriages and deaths and searching a whole vaiety of other records for more information.
Some people are lucky, someone else may have already done alot of the background work for you and recorded your family history on at least one side of your family. However most of us aren't that lucky.
It's a very good start to talk to your parents and ask them to tell you everything they know about their parents and grandparents. It's suprising how little alot of people know.
You will have to turn to births, marriages and death records, census  returns, electoral roles, parish registers and any other records you can find.
There are a whole lot of interesting and informative sites such as Ancesrty, Rootschat, Genes Re-United, Origins UK and the Latter Day Saints  on the web, some are  free and others subscription sites.
You also need to find a suitable format in which to store and record data. You may be very suprised at what you find out about your ancestors so be prepared for some suprises!