Dear Lisa,
Thank for e-mailing, I tried to respond back from my e-mail and it returned, so I will respond by the board. I am an avid book collectore, over 5,000 books, collecting for 30 years, I have a book you may like to try and find at your local library or at a book store, it is called, THE CELTS A HISTORY BY PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS. it gives much data that you would help in your quest, for finding out WHO, WHAT WHERE, THE CELTS ARE. ALSO I have many genetic books, which one is: PRINCIPLE OF GENETICS, BY SINNOT AND DUNN, you won't find this one, but in it as a sample of genetics, COLOR BLINDNESS comes off the MOTHER TO THE MALE CHILD, which this is an elementary example of genetics, but it shows traits run in families.

I have also found in my studies that SECOND COUSINS intermarry on the ISLE. I, by my studies, show many families, THE CAIN, CAINE, CORLETT'S, THE KAIGHANS. THE KELLY'S, THE CLARKES. THE GAWNS' THE STEPHENS, THE CALLISTERS', THE CROWES' THE QUIGGINS, ON AND ON, THE ENTIRE QUANTITY OF IDENTIFIABLE NAMES CONSIDERED MANX, all mixed in marriages, and married outside their PARISHES AND WERE BURIED IN PARISHES THAT THEY DID NOT ATTEND. BALLAUGH HAS MISSING RECORDS WHICH THAT DATA will never be retrived, but by LAND RECORDS. ETC, ETC, many pieces of the puzzle of family trees come together, and AS I SEE IT, IT IS A MIXTURE OR MELTING POT OF ALL ISLE OF MAN FAMILIES. for there is a saying on MS. COAKLEY'S C D, ABOUT THE CRADLE THAT IS ROCKED, WHAT MANX DO NOT KNOW WHO IS BEING CRADLED, I shall have to go back and get the exact MANX quote which puts it much better than what I just wrote, but to search our roots, like the hound, head to the ground, you wil find your roots, , I worked to find my roots in the THE DARK AGES, before computers, family stories, BIBLES, grave yards, court houses, now YOU HAVE IT EVER SO EASY, FREE, THIS BOARD, THAT GIVES A WEALTH OF DATA, GLEEN FROM IT, AND GET THE C D OF MS. COAKLEY, IT IS NOT EXPENSIVE, AND IS A GOLDMINE OF DATA ON THE MANX. CENSUS NOW AVAILABLE, MORMON FILES, MILITARY FILES, SO MANY FREE THINGS YOU CAN GET ON THE COMPUTER NOW, AND IT MAKES IT SO EASY to research your family now, DNA, etc,etc. so enjoy your journey, hounds find their prey by smelling, putting their nose to the ground and following the trail, get on the trail and you will find those roots, some run deep, some run shallow, but by GOD, GET TO THE CHASE.

Kindly yours,

Mrs. Rosa