Mrs Rosa,

Now that you have seen how helpful people are in the IoM, and how willing everyone on this board is to assist you, will you please reconsider your refusal to add your will transcripts to those at http://www3.telus.net/lawson/wills/_will_index.html (email: brian@lawsons.ca)?

You suspect that the wills would be used for profit, but they would be no more, or less, valuable than the others on the website, all of which have cost their submitters and host time and money. And because they are freely available to everyone there should be no way they can be used commercially.

Your Cain (and other) wills could be of great use in the future to people with Cain ancestry - like Liz - when they have been able to trace their families back further.

Besides which, you are far more likely to find Cain and Corlett family connections in the IoM if you publicly share your records so that they can see where they fit in, or might be connected.

Sue