Hi Noeline You are subscribed to a list with many subscribers, you will receive a copy of all posts to the list not only those relevant to you Its rather like subscribing to a magazine, read the parts you are interested in but discard those that do not interest you Look for the subject line that you posted on yours , any replies to that should carry the same subject line There are two replies in the list archives for your enquiry http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/Mariners/2011-11 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > I"m new to this,but I think you may have sent this to the wrong email as my query was about > flatboats of cheshire in the 1800's.Noeline >