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Subject: Re: on line phone directories - correction - CDROM does exist
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 13:01:36 +0000


Hi

writes..

> The find-a-person site is at <http://www.192.com>; - and it has worked for
> me. If you have a peculiarly unusual surname name, as I had it will
> search on surname alone - and it found the only one in the country! - and
> I located the person I was looking for.
>
> However, if you have to search on a more common name like John SMITH,
> London, expect to be faced with an unmanageable large number of hits.

I believe you can still purchase CDROMs from the same site. In fact
out-of-date CDROMs have been given away free with UK PC magazines. I
have purchase such a CDROM (for around 20 UK pounds). It is not 100%
accurate but with it I produced a comma-delimited list and did a
Snail-Mail-merge shot to just over 100 families with an uncommon
surname.

You can't search everything and the list is not 100 per cent and
quite a few people are ex-directory but I have found it very useful
indeed. Far better than trying to get anything out of BT!!

- Chris French
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