Hi all According to the Melbourne "Age" newspaper, as relayed by the Telegraph, yesterday Saturday 22nd, telephone directories 1880-1984 for the UK are released for online viewing. As you do, I accidently threw the paper out early this morning into the rubbish, but I think the gist of it was that most of the counties around London have already been uploaded and the rest are expected to be online by early next year. The url was obviously www.ancestry.co.uk so I imagine that anyone with payable access to Ancestry.com, whether it be UK or not, will be able to download these indexes, etc. Which means that you can also go to any LDS library centre, genealogy library, or major town library and do the same, free. Happy hunting. I can hardly wait. Cheers Graham Melbourne

Hi Graham I had a look at these the day that they were released.. It is good but a long search.. don't think it will be worthwhile for some families etc as it gives many many results.. For example I put in Richard Pollard in Burnley 1940 (+ or - 20) and I couldn't see a Lancs option so I chose Metro Midland Southern Western? All available counties (as again no Lancs option). It still give me many many London results?? My Richard was no where near London! I scanned through 400 results (mostly London/Kent) and then gave up. It doesn't tell you how many results in total that there are... Surely the people in Lancs had telephones back then? Maybe I have not used the search engine properly - open to any suggestions? I wonder if they will fine tune the search engine a bit eventually! Or maybe give more information on their coverage.. I wont be trying to search for my SMITH family on this one :) Cheers Kelly -----Original Message----- From: eng-shropshire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-shropshire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Graham Price Sent: Saturday, 23 September 2006 12:39 PM To: clwyd@rootsweb.com; eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-SHROP] 1880-1984 Telephone Directories online Hi all According to the Melbourne "Age" newspaper, as relayed by the Telegraph, yesterday Saturday 22nd, telephone directories 1880-1984 for the UK are released for online viewing. As you do, I accidently threw the paper out early this morning into the rubbish, but I think the gist of it was that most of the counties around London have already been uploaded and the rest are expected to be online by early next year. The url was obviously www.ancestry.co.uk so I imagine that anyone with payable access to Ancestry.com, whether it be UK or not, will be able to download these indexes, etc. Which means that you can also go to any LDS library centre, genealogy library, or major town library and do the same, free. Happy hunting. I can hardly wait. Cheers Graham Melbourne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message