Advice
The Research Centre is staffed by volunteer Research Assistants who are there to provide advice and help you with your family history problems. However, for obvious reasons they cannot carry out the work for you as there will likely be other visitors in the Centre requiring assistance and volunteers have other duties to carry out as well.
If you wish to use the computers then you really need to be comfortable using a keyboard and mouse although help will be given with the programmes in use on the machines. If you cannot use a computer for whatever reason, you are at liberty to bring a friend or relative to "drive" the computer for you. If they are non-members but are helping a member to use a computer they will not be charged the temporary membership fee.
If you have a particular computing problem then it is better go along to a meeting of the Computer Branch at The Oakwood Centre, Headley Road Woodley on the 3rd Wednesday in the month. Here there will be a number of people with computing skills that will probably be able to help you. See website for details. Assistants at the Research Centre may be able to help you at other times but, obviously, their degree of computing expertise will vary.
Volunteers will be able to help you find suitable internet sites to further your research and to assist you with the wealth of information available at the centre in electronic form. They may also be able to help you to get started with family history if you are a beginner (we all had to start at some stage) and can guide you through the various computer programmes we have at the centre.
Last revised 2nd January 2012
