In message <000901c41281$024d0660$c7ccfc3e@oemcomputer>, "norman.lee1" <norman.lee1@virgin.net> writes >Is a shelter thus built known as a cottage? depends on the structure., It could be simpler, one room to be added to when time allowed, or it might later become the barn to a more dwelling like home.,The idea was that once you erected some sort of structure where you could light a fire (smoke leaving through hole in roof), then you were legally 'there' and could expand later. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society