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From: "Sandra Turner" <>
Subject: RE: [SOG-UK-L] BT phone disk lookups
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 17:05:37 +0100


Hello David
Thank you for the offer of a search. Would you please look up CLEMAS for
me. I know of one member of the family still alive living in the Birmingham
area but I know this persons grandfather had a cousin living in Wales who
married in 1906 and had quite a few children. I am hoping they may still be
alive so I can make contact with them and learn more about the family.
best wishes
from
Sandra
researching:
Turner/Chapman/Nunn/Nicholls/Cant/Humphreys/Campion in Essex
Clemas/Baldwin/Prosser/Mason/Bailey in
Dorset/Gloucestershire/Glamorgan/Hampshire
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hawgood [mailto:]
> Sent: 06 September 1998 14:14
> To:
> Subject: [SOG-UK-L] BT phone disk lookups
>
>
> I have just received my copy of the BT phone disk for September 1998. I
> have been doing lookups for GOONS members for a year and now offer to do
> lookups for those on the SoG mailing list.
>
> The disk has all entries from BT white pages phone books, and includes
> other operators (eg cable) as well as BT - but does not include the Hull
> phone book. It includes Northern Ireland, and the Isle of Man, but not the
> Channel Islands.
>
> A search must have either a complete surname or at least the first three
> letters -
> HA only finds surname HA, HAW finds HAWE, HAWGOOD, HAWKINS, HAWTIN etc.
>
> In addition a search can have a location (town or county), address (any
> part), postcode, - for business entries there are keywords as well, but I
> normally only search residential entries.
>
> I get a list of names and addresses displayed on the screen - maximum 200
> entries, then the search stops. I can then display the full details of any
> entry, including phone number. I can cut and paste from the screen to an
> email.
>
> I can also obtain statistics. For example I have just searched
> the disk for
> surname SMITH - it took one minute to tell me that there are 172,357
> residential subscribers named SMITH. A worrying feature is that a year ago
> there were 178,693 Smiths - it is not increased mortality, it is an
> increase in the proportion ex-directory, which is over 35% nationally and
> over 55% in London. I have set up the countries (England, Scotland, Wales,
> Northern Ireland) as locations, also regions of England. What I have been
> doing for GOONS members is supplying a full list of names and
> addresses for
> up to 200 entries, but over 200 entries I supply statistics by country and
> English region.
>
> If I get a lot of enquiries, I just answer one a day till they are
> finished. So let me know what lookups you would like - I will
> answer in due
> course
>
> Finally, members might like to know that a different phone disk, "UK Info
> 3.0" is the cover disk on the October issue of Computer Shopper.
> UK Info is
> less accurate than the BT disk, but it does also contain some electoral
> roll information. I tried UK Info 18 months ago and it was so inaccurate
> that I gave it up, but it is now much improved - worth trying.
>
> regards,
> David Hawgood.
>
>

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