In a message dated 00-08-03 19:51:14 EDT, you write:

<< New Hampshire, and almost certainly every other state in every land, has
hamets
 by one name or another. Mr. O'Brien fails to understand the hamlet concept. A
 hamlet is certainly not whatever anyone wants it to be. And there certainly
is a
 conclusive answer. The issue is cloudy only to those who fail to understand
it.
 Genealogists will find the understanding useful, just as CPAs find it useful
to
 distinguish between debits and credits, very simple items which utterly
confuse
 the uninformed. >>

"Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio." .... William Shakespeare, Hamlet,
Act I, Scene I