(fwd) Re: Telephonebook search
Damita D. Green
From=20mcn...@usit.netThu Apr 11 12:54:39 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:11:39 -0400
From: "Billie R. McNamara" <mcna...@usit.net>
To: "The CAROLINAS Genealogy users list (NC/SC-ROOTS)"
<nc/sc-r...@rmgate.pop.indiana.edu>
Subject: Telephone Directories On The Web
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I figured some or all of you might be interested in the directories this gu=
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has on his website -- I found the link to it from the web pages of a neat
lady named Leona Halley Henderson (thanks, Leona, if you see this!)
>http://www.c2.net/~buttle/tel/
>> [Top 5%!] [Clearinghouse Approved] Telephone Directories on the Web
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>> On this page you'll find links to online telephone, fax and business
>> directories from around the world.
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>> Asia/Pacific - Australia - Austria - Belgium - Canada - Chile -
>> Denmark - Europe - France - Italy - Japan - Malaysia - Norway -
>> Russia - Slovenia - Spain - Switzerland - USA - Other Links
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>> Only directories that make some attempt to be complete (preferably
>> official telco directories) are included, I don't list the numerous
>> directories of "businesses on the web" and local guides. Send any
>> corrections and comments on the contents of the directories to the
>> people who run each directory, NOT to me.
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>> Asia Pacific
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>> Asia Pacific Fax Directory
>> Fax numbers for numerous countries in Asia, Pacific and
>> Middle East. Seems quite selective, and some of the data
>> is years out of date.
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>> Australia
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>> Australia White Pages
>> An very good white pages with national coverage.
>> Australia Yellow Pages
>> Excellent interface, good coverage and very up to date.
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>> Austria
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>> Austrian VideoText
>> Includes Austrian White Pages via Telnet, in German. Not
>> easy to use.
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>> Belgium
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>> Infobel 96
>> Belgian alphabetical directory: 4,000,000 names with
>> addresses, phone numbers and (where available) email and
>> URL's. Very nice.
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>> Canada
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>> Canada Yellow Pages
>> From the US World Yellow Pages Network, a Canadian Yellow
>> Pages directory.
>> North America White Pages
>> From the US World Yellow Pages Network, North American
>> residential listings (includes Canada).
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>> Chile
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>> Chile Business Directory
>> Over 60,000 entries, classified, with addresses, phone and
>> fax.
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>> Denmark
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>> Kraks Vejviser [NEW!]
>> Danish Business Directory, includes products, fax numbers,
>> contact names.
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>> Europe
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>> Europages Business Directory
>> A fairly selective directory of mostly manufacturing
>> companies.
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>> France
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>> France White Pages
>> Access to the classic Minitel directory. You need to know
>> the town (or at least Department) where the person lives.
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>> Italy
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>> Italian Yellow Pages
>> All companies in Italy.
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>> Japan
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>> NTT Yellow Pages
>> NTT Yellow Pages in English for Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto.
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>> Malaysia
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>> Telekom Malaysia
>> White pages and yellow pages, in English.
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>> Norway
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>> Telnor Gulesider
>> Norway Yellow Pages. Search by category only, for all of
>> Norway ("hele Norge") or by region. In Norwegian.
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>> Russia
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>> Moscow Business Telephone Guide
>> Still under development, but it already includes a good
>> range of companies in Moscow, by categories.
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>> Slovenia
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>> Telefonski imenik Slovenije
>> National Telephone directory, includes keyword searching,
>> addresses, and fax numbers. In Slovenian.
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>> Spain
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>> Paginas Amarillas
>> Yellow Pages for Spain, with more that 1,500,00 entries.
>> In Spanish.
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>> Switzerland
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>> Swiss White Pages
>> This costs the service provider (Eunet) real money, so is
>> blocked from many domains. It is included here since it
>> seems to work for some people.
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>> USA
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>> ATT Directory of 800 numbers
>> Toll Free numbers (only numbers connected by ATT).
>> Nynex Interactive Yellow Pages
>> BigYellow: national USA yellow pages, plus a few www
>> links.
>> World Yellow Pages NETwork [NEW!]
>> All of USA, includes reverse-search (search by phone
>> number). Offers free web pages to all businesses in the
>> US. Now includes Residential numbers, and Canada.
>> YellowNet
>> National directory, allows nationwide search by category.
>> Confusing search forms, read the help files.
>> Central Source Yellow Pages
>> Another US Yellow Pages, seemed to be going through an
>> upgrade (and therefore broken) when I last checked it.
>> Bell Atlantic
>> Only Washington and Baltimore Yellow Pages. Has reverse
>> search.
>> USA White Pages
>> At last, a complete national directory for both private
>> numbers and business numbers. I can see this'll be very
>> popular.
>> GTE Superpages
>> US National Yellow Pages, plus a web directory.
>> BigBook
>> Yellow Pages for the US, with the added feature of a map
>> interface that can plot an address to street level, or
>> select phone numbers in a mapped area.
>> BellSouth Yellow Pages [NEW!]
>> Atlanta Area only.
>> The Internet 800 Directory [NEW!]
>> Around 200,000 toll-free numbers, includes non-ATT
>> customers.
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>> Other Telephone Links
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>> Internal Phone Lists of Companies and Organizations
>> from Pro CD.
>> Phone Numbers
>> from Yahoo
>> Directory of Public Telephones
>> Payphones worldwide.
>> UK Phone Information
>> Area Codes, regulatory information, and other UK phone
>> links.
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>> Other Interesting Links
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>> The Garwick Gallery
>> Nothing to do with telephones, this is an art gallery.
>> Television Schedules of the World
>> What's on tonight in the USA, UK, Australia, South
>> Africa...
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>> You can send additions and corrections to this list to
>> telep...@buttle.com. This means additions to the LIST of
>> directories, NOT your own new phone number or address (people have
>> been sending me several personal phone number corrections every
>> day!). I do not maintain the content of the directories...
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>> Other comments are also welcome, BUT please don't ask me where to
>> find numbers and directories that are not listed: if they're not
>> listed, I don't know about them. There are of course directories
>> available for some countries on CDROM and on commercial online
>> services, but they are outside the scope of this page, as I only
>> link to pages freely accessible on the Internet.
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>> =A9 Copyright 1995-1996 Robert Hoare Updated 7 April 1996.
>> All trade marks mentioned are the property of their owners.
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