FAMILY HISTORIES Sirmon Family Home Page

In the Documents section of the site guide, you may choose to view the research documents of the Sirmon family. Many of the documents on this site are presented using the PDF format. There is a special note on PDF documents presented below. If you are unfamiliar with PDF documents, it is suggested that you read the special note before trying to access the documents. The Site Guide in the window on the left is designed to allow you direct access to the particular type of documents broken down by the areas indicated.

It will be helpful for anyone viewing the documents on this site to have spent some time researching the early generations of the Edward Sermoner family. If that should not be the case, one should spend time reading the documents presented on the site to develop an understanding of the movement of the family. We will emphasize here that many relationships posted are not supported by documentation but are our best guess from information currently available. Therefore, please do not take any information from this site and post it to other sites without our knowledge. Posting information as fact when such is not the case is a hindrance to serious and honest research.

The Genealogy Reports link will allow you to access some of the different S*rm*n families who descend from Edward and Anne of Maryland.

As interest grows and information becomes available, more photos and graphics will be added. The Photos link provides some photos of early family members.

You may use the Family Related Web Sites link to access other web sites related to the family.

The purpose of the S*rm*n Family DNA Project is to use the science of DNA to trace the different family lines back to their origin. At the present time, the test results of the participants have led us to identify two independent S*rm*n families in the southwest of England. One is in the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire area and is refered to as the Severn Valley family. The other is found in the Oxfordshire area and is refered to as the Thames Valley family. A third group consists of participants who have not been connected to these two family groups. Different lines of these families are found in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Europe, South Africa, and the United States. As most family researchers know, the modern day spelling may appear with a variety of different vowels. The spellings include: Serman, Sermon, Sirman, Sirmon, Surman, or Surmon. Any of these variations may end in an "s." You may substitute your family "vowel" where the "*" appears.

If you are interested in the project, you may use the link in the window at the left to go to the S*rm*n Family DNA Project. There you will find general information about the DNA project along with participant test results and information from both the UK and the USA relating to the S*rm*n families.

If you have questions, suggestions, additions, or corrections, or if you have documents you would like to share on this site, please let us know. The only way to make this site a success is for everyone to contribute.

The documents on the Sirmon Family rely heavily upon both page layout and graphical content. This visual information can be lost in the transfer from the printed page to the web page. To maintain the integrity of these documents, we convert them into Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF files are excellent for displaying a document's original information and format on a large number of different computer systems. The PDF files have the security of the document set so that it is not possible to print the file. If you need a printed copy, please contact us.