I'm Holly Wanless Cochran, born a Wanless, married to a Cochran. I've been fascinated by genealogy ever since I was about 13 and my paternal grandmother helped me draw a family tree and identified some relatives in old pictures for me. I started "serious" researching when I was about 24. Since Wanless/Wandless is a relatively unusual name, I kept track of all the "other" Wan(d)lesses I found along the way, in hopes of eventually hooking them up with each other. The result is Wanless Web, which I started on-line in December 1998. This project has grown beyond my wildest dreams with the contributions of many other researchers, and it continues to grow and provide many satisfying connections.

I grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and have been moving steadily northward ever since, most recently (1993) to Ashland, a small town in southern Oregon. I have a degree in computer science (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, 1984) and have done various programming-related jobs including technical support, management, teaching, and writing. Currently I run Durham Records Online, a web site that sells English census data to genealogists, and Hollyhock Press, which publishes public record transcriptions for genealogists researching in Bath & Highland counties in Virginia. When I'm not doing genealogy, I like to read, ski, camp, hike, play competitive volleyball, and bounce my inflatable kayak down rivers.

3 generations of our Wanless family: my Dad (Carl), my son (Evan), and me (Holly)

Oct 2003