Family Historian User Zoom Group
The Family Historian User Zoom Group is not yet a year old but it has become very popular for helping new and experienced users of Family Historian genealogy software.
It was started by Derek Heritage after he spent some time looking for video tutorials about the program but couldn’t find the help he wanted. The group members meet online, usually every 2 weeks, using the Zoom video conferencing service. This means users can meet on screen, share written comments and files, ask and answer each others questions and even demonstrate methods and features using the “screen share” features of Zoom.
The group membership has grown to well over a 100 members from places including UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
Each meeting is recorded and the video archive is available to members with an index being produced with time markers to indicate where each topic was discussed/demonstrated.
There is a sub group for those users who use Family Historian with ORA (Online Repository Assistant).
The Family Historian User Zoom Group website is https://fhuzg.uk/ and they have a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/familyhistorianuserzoomgroup
Family Historian
The very best software for Genealogy
I have been using Family Historian for a few years after converting my records from Legacy. Family Historian is a full featured program with a great many features i.e. Ancestor and Descendant views, Multimedia, Interactive Diagrams, Source Templates, Maps, Word Processing features, Research Notes, Internet Data Matches, Reports and Publishing features.
Family Historian is very configurable by the user with a great many options to change the look and feel to assist in data entry or the look of reports and diagrams.
The program is further extendable by plugins and a large number of user-written plugins are available to download free at the Family Historian Plugin Store.
It is very well supported by the designers and even more so by the community of users. There is a very active forum Family Historian User Group and a Groups.io site.
The Family Historian User Group also contains a Knowledge Base where there are FAQ’s, tutorials, and downloadable queries, reports, templates, and much more.
A new Zoom User Group for Family Historian users is at FHZUG
Samuel George Herbert Mason
Samuel George Herbert Mason MC was born on 7 April 1891 in Moseley, Birmingham to Samuel George Mason a brass-founder and Amy Mason (nee Collins). He was known professionally as Herbert Mason throughout his theatrical and film career.
He worked in the family business before deciding to begin a career on stage. However, his career came to a pause when the First World War broke out.
He was awarded the Military Cross for his courage in the Battle of Guillemont in September 1916. Prior to the battle he painted a self-portrait with oil paints left behind by a French officer whose dugout he moved into.
When the war ended, Mason resumed his career in theatre and became a stage manager in the 1920s. In the 1930s he moved into film making and after the Second World War film production. He and his wife Daisy Fisher, a novelist wrote several plays together. They were married for nearly 46 years.
Samuel George Herbert Mason died on 20 May 1960 in London, aged 69.
Even over 60 years after his death, he remains fondly remembered by his daughter-in-law and grandchildren and admired by his great-grandchildren. He is described as “a larger than life character” by his daughter-in-law.
Thanks to John Gumley Mason for sending this painting and description of his great grandfather Samuel George Herbert Mason.
Remembering Joseph (John Jonas) Phillips
Joseph was born 7 April 1904 in Liverpool to Max Phillips & Cecilia Benjamin but in later life he was known as John Jonas.
On 29 June 1927 he was shown as a deck boy on his first foreign going ship. The 1939 Register shows him as a Marine Fireman on the SS Badgestea.
Stoker John Jonas Phillips (service no. LT/KX105223) of the Royal Navy Patrol Service died aboard HM Trawler Burra on 20 March 1942, aged 37. He is commemorated at Port Said War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt.
Headstone Inscription – ‘MY DEAR BROTHER JOHN. HIS NAME IS WRITTEN IN LETTERS OF LOVE IN HEARTS AT HOME’
See his entry at Commonwealth War Graves Commission
His details can also be found at the website Remembering the Jews of WW2. My thanks to Cathie Hewitt for the photo and the military information.