The Family Historian 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 Zoom Group website is https://fhzg.co.uk/ and they have a Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/familyhistorianzoomgroup