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. > > (snipped) Jim, I am not sure how accurate the list is. I searched for myself and I don't appear. That is OK I am not on the public available electoral roll, and our phone number is not in the phone book. I searched for Orlando. There are usually so many Orlando's in the USA that I will be old and grey before I extract the living ones. The search revealed ONE! I looked at the page again and realised I had selected the name of ORLALNDO - not a registered variant. I grabbed it anyway! I redid the search using the exact spelling it found over 13,000, none of which are in Italy. It also revealed several who had hypenised their name - ORLANDO-BIRD is one of them. In fact there were 29 hypenised names with Orlando in. I didn't even get to search for Worship. Lets ave that for another day of fun! Thanks Jim for the site. Have you added it to the WIKI? Regards Julie Goucher Guild Member 3925 Orlando & Worship ONS Regional Rep South Devon