Who are we?
YouTree is a one-person company run by Jim Perryman.
Jim is a retired Church of England vicar, living in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. You can be assured of an honest, customer-focussed response, seeking to do the best for you at a good price.
Our story
Having done a lot of work tracing my own family history some years ago, I started YouTree to be a channel for offering my services to other people among my friends and acquaintencies. The printing side began when I moved to lead a small parish in Warwickshire. Due to historical issues, the PCC did not want to lease a new photocopier, so it was decided that I would purchase the copier and then charge the PCC for parish printing. I then offered services to other local groups in the village and churches in the area, and the printing business outgrew the Family History side.
Now retired, I am able to focus on YouTree more as a business than a hobby, and so have broadened my range of home-based small scale services and linked up with a professional printer for larger jobs.
The YouTree Ethos
Serve others as you would like to be served
While my work with YouTree has no specific link to my vocation as a Christian Minister, my attitude to life is affected in every part by my faith in Jesus Christ. The ‘Golden Rule’ that Jesus taught and displayed was ‘Do to others as you would have them do to you’
(the Gospel according to St Matthew, chapter 7 verse 12).
I am always happy to speak about my faith to anyone who wishes to discover more – no charge!
Range of Printing Services
Please select from the links below to discover the range of services that I am able to offer. If you want something that doesn’t seem to fit these categories, please get in touch and I’ll see whether I can help. Please note that I am not, at this stage, able to offer personalised fabric items such as T-shirts etc.
Copying and Scanning
Document and Booklet printing
Posters and Flyers
Orders of Service
Laminating and Cutting
Personalised Mugs
Personalised Ceramic, Glass, Wood and Metal items
Display items (flags, banners etc.)
Your family history
Discovering roots, building branches
The big problem with starting family history research is that most people do it too late! You may have noticed that we grow older – and suddenly the generations which held so much knowledge of our own history are not around any more to have an in depth conversation with. If only, I’d asked the questions when they were still alive!
That is certainly a major part of my story – and I have found it resonates with many others. My own journey began with a desire to discover something about my Father’s side of the family. He never spoke about them, having been estranged since teenage years. I never asked – and then he died while still at a relatively young age.
Research, much of it pre-internet, led me to discover about the large family that my grandfather had been part of, and eventually, I actually met one of my Dad’s cousins, not long before his death, and was able to get a small amount of first-hand knowledge passed on to me.
Don’t leave it too late to discover your own history. The more information you can glean from the wider family before you start, the easier it becomes to research with confidence – and maybe prove (or disprove) some of the family legends that have been passed down through the generations. It is a fascinating topic, and I can help you get started and leave you with the tools to explore more deeply and to put ‘flesh’ back on the ‘bones’ of past ancestors.
One recent project discovered a direct line back to William the Conquereror! I can’t promise that for everyone, but for UK based families, I can probably get you back over 200 years, and even those with overseas families can find quite a lot of information without having to do a ‘Who do you think you are’-type journey around the globe.
