Welcome to my family history!

This website is intended as a place to upload the research that I've been doing into my family history since mid-2023. It's currently not much of anything, but I hope to begin populating it with notable people, and/or working my way up my family tree in a more sensible manner.

The only page so far is the page for Alfred Hollis.

Where I do my research

My initial research started with physical documents inherited from other family members. However, I have confirmed these and expanded on them using records saved on FindMyPast and Ancestry. For some branches of my family, I have also drawn on online research done by other family members, which I will link where relevant.

I've been using the Family Historian software to compile my research. Why am I not using the in-built website generation? Stubbornness and pickiness.

The site name

My great (x4) grandmother's surname was Permain. Several of her descendants were given it as a middle name - unfortunately not me! - and one took "Dorothy Permayne" as the name of her business. I have an attachment to it now, so it seemed suitable to take it on for my genealogical pursuits!

The Permaynes in the header both come from order slips from the Dorothy Permayne business. (Although ironically, the family photo used as a background is from a different branch of the family entirely, and contains no one who used any version of the Permain surname!)