Same here. I was not that impressed since hey are not scanning any records that are not already open to public access. Certainly they do not contain any police records or 'confidential' information. All of the records that I managed to access were on the American continent. Could be useful, but i think it could also be expensive. Peter Amsden ARPS ABIPP Photographer and writer. http://www.amsden.info On 31 Dec 2014, at 02:00, Christine Usher via wrote: > it asked me for my credit card details before i could blink > > On 12 December 2014 at 04:26, Jim Benedict via <goons@rootsweb.com> wrote: >> Are you searching for all living instances of your surname in the world? >> Are you looking for everyone in your postal/zip code? Do you want to plow >> through over 2 million family names and over 240 million living individuals? >> Especially if they live in: Canada, Bogota Columbia, New Delhi India, >> Macedonia, Romania, United Kingdom or the USA? Then I have just the search >> website for you. >> >> Not sure if it has been mentioned previously: http://www.locatefamily.com/ >> >> It is a bit uncanny. I was able to locate myself quickly by postal code, >> including my phone number, and also for everyone on my block. This was the >> Street search. If you do the Surname search, you also get (once you find >> it) your relative or yourself, full address, phone number, and map link. >> >> It gets downright scary, just how much information is out there. This seems >> to be better than the usual 411.com or the whitepages.com or similar >> searches. Cannot spot any advertising, no need for login, nor do you get >> only partial information. So, this is how the private dicks can locate your >> wayward spouse. >> >> The website states that there are 21 million people in 27 countries starting >> with "B" in the surname. Also, 11,634 names and 762,810 people starting >> with "Ben". So I must have 10,000+ Benedict's lurking somewhere in the >> lists. It is going to be a long, long night. >> >> Jim Benedict >> Guild Representative for Western Canada >> Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 >> Calgary, Alberta >> www.BenedictGenerations.com >> ======================================================== >> >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message