RobertJackson58585858, 
My first into to the FAN club was the video by Connie Knox which started by showing how to select copy and paste from the (US) census.
Then got to the meat sifting through eliminating those unlikely to be relevant leaving the remainder as possible fathers of her ancestor.
Which remained unresolved but she was able to pin down the grandparents.
That was the big lesson for me ... that one doesn't necessarily discover the actual parent(s) but you might prove the grandparents :)