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From: Michael Kay< >
Subject: [SOG-UK-L] Re: Halberts / Mailshots / Archives
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 22:39:31 -0000


>Several people's main criticism was that the information that was provided,
>which was mostly from telephone directories around the world, was out of
>date...

It's easy to criticise this stuff as junk, but I do hope someone is buying
one copy and filing it somewhere for posterity. In 100 years time these
books will be very useful, as a route to more reliable but unindexed records
like electoral registers and census returns. Just as Victorian trade
directories are today.

Come to think of it, is anyone maintaining a complete collection of
telephone directories anywhere?
I suppose the British Library must have something in that vast building...

Mike Kay

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