Audrey As far as I am aware John never had a website and he never published any of his research so if you do have an old URL for something he published I would be very interested to receive it. Even if the site is no longer there it should still be possible to retrieve it on the Internet Archive. I've heard many sad stories of people's research being completely destroyed after their descendants took no notice whatsoever. I did try my best to persuade John to publish something but sadly his health defeated him. I just hope that one of his daughters will eventually take up the reins. Debbie In a message dated 04/11/2006 10:43:07 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Dear Debbie I do know what you mean about leaving things too late. A well respected man that I knew whose expertise was vernacular architecture and who gave a great deal to others in the subject never, himself, published. Others who were not so scrupulous would take his ideas and put them forward as their own but, if he had published, he could have claimed copyright. A great deal of his work was quite possibly lost as a lot was in his private files and on his own slides. As far as John's daughters are concerned, they may just get the bug when they are going through his papers. Surely they will not get rid of them without considering the records office or the like! However, I have known of others who have come along to a more remote relative and literally burnt all his effects upon his death without looking at what they were doing. Old photographs and various other bits and pieces were lost that way. I would think that John would not have daughters like that as they would think of their father when going through his things. He did leave his site with me and I looked at it quite a while ago. I shall now have to revisit it to refresh my memory. Audrey