Hello Sylvia ,I agree with many of your points in your message. I am a member & conscious-------------------------------

That IOM FHS needs to keep solvent Membership is cheap anywhere in world & the magazines

are a wonderful read. The paper records are expensive to post & CD's are available. Members

on library duty can help members in person, by post or e-mail with small queries for free.

If visiting Manx Museum library [I live close by] I have always been pleased to help with minor

enquiries for any board user. Just occasionally one feels as if amount of questions is

unreasonable & then I have backed out -not appropriate to be copying out "whole book". Mary