Helping New Members on The Lost Cousins site

This sounds a good idea, new sites can be daunting for some people and a bit of hand holding goes a long way to getting people started on the right track.

It is the sort of thing I have done in the past on other sites and would be willing to offer help here.

 

Yes quite happy to help if needed.

 

Me too!

 

And me.
(though .. I wonder, Rhian, what is daunting about the LC site? Compared with many others it is a breeze)

 

I have found that a lot of users seem to get lost on sites new to them, in particular older users who are not always comfortable with computers.
LC is really quite simple but I did have a cousin who was confused about entering census page, folio and other numbers, mainly because she had never recorded any citations because 'it's obvious where I got it from.'
As Peter added the bit about hand holding the first few household I assume he is aware that some new members get stuck at the first step.

 

A year or so ago I tried to introduce an old time (online) friend, and fellow researcher, to LC. I don't think she would mind me saying a lady of vintage years, from the Black Country, and totally at odds with anything to do with a computer. Most of her initial researching had been 'hands-on - and I spent a lot of time helping her navigate Ancestry. She could not grasp even the basic things with LC and after many (and I mean many) attempts to assist by email, she finally called a halt and told me (and I wished I could have heard her saying it in her Black Country brogue) - "it's doing my head in" Bob. It didn't quite end there but I did not persist because she had failing health problems and I knew enough was enough in her particular case.

Simplicity to one person is complexity to another and we should not forget this and I imagine that is what is beyond Peter's request for others to help newcomers.

 

As one of "vintage years" I couldn't agree more.

 

I'd be happy to help where I can.