Start it with wallets like Electrum[1]. That's a good start for you while you're still thinking about which wallet you'll use together with your family. But we highly advise everyone to buy their very first hardware wallet. Do not forget to download the wallets that you are decided to use from their official websites. And if you can't still think of it, you have various choices[2].
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https://electrum.org/[2]
Choose your Bitcoin wallet the electrum wallet is showing me disconnected,how can I connect it?
Can you send a screenshot of what you are seeing in your wallet? Maybe your electrum is not yet synced? If you still need more time the Electrum wallet is running in the background of your computer so it will sync.
Good you selected Electrum as wallet, which you can use it for now, then later on you can decide if you want to use hardware wallet.