Got British ancestors? Phone them out!
After a huge, three-year effort, a genealogy research company in Britain has made available online a vast database with the British phonebooks from 1880 through 1984. This project required about 2,000 books to be digitalised and transferred into the database that can be queried through the Ancestry website. The main purpose for this initiative is to provide a tool for people from Britain or with British ancestry to investigate their family trees.
With 280 million phone numbers and addresses, this phonebook is like a time machine where people can learn who lived in their houses a hundred years ago, the whereabouts of their long-passed relatives and wherever the curiosity takes them. The website also allows visitors to track back the addresses of famous artists, politicians and other personalities that lived in London or other places in Britain. This service is available for Ancestry.co.uk subscribers and is part of the resources that the company offers mainly for Britain and Commonwealth-based genealogy professionals and enthusiasts.
