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Accessing Telephone Records

Disclaimers / Juristisches

Introduction
[Australia] [Austria] [Canada] [Finland] [France] [Germany] [Hungary] [Israel] [Italy] [Netherlands] [Romania] [Slovenia] [Switzerland] [United Kingdom] [United States of America] [Yugoslavia]
Multiple Country Websites
Finding E-mail Addresses

Introduction

Finding relatives you never knew you had can be a great way to find out more about your genealogy. For many countries, national telephone listings are offered for on-line search on the World Wide Web. Below find links to sites of this type all over the web. (Your suggestions for other such sites are appreciated.)

An alternative to WWW searching is the Telephone CD-ROM which permits lookups at your local system. Telephone CD-ROMS contain surnames, "snail-mail" addresses and telephone numbers for all published households in a given country. They typically come with software which permit easy searches at least by surname, and sometimes by location as well. Listings for various Telephone CD's can be found below.

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Australia

WWW
http://www.whitepages.com.au (presented by WhitePages)
It appears that these pages require both a location and surname in order to perform a search, so it will not be possible to search the entire country in one go.
CD-ROM
1. Australia on Disc, Read Only Memory Pty Ltd., 125 Crystal Street, Petersham, NSW 2193, AUSTRALIA
2. Brylar's Australia on Disc, Brylar Pty Ltd, Unit 5A, 186-188 Canterbury Road, Canterbury, NSW 2193 AUSTRALIA

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Austria

WWW
- Topware
  (German, English, Italian and Dutch user interface)
- Elektronisches Telefonbuch
  (German interface)
CD-ROM
- Herold ATB CD - expensive and limited retrieval methods
- O-Info - ATS 299, similar to the Herold edition
- A-Info - ATS 299 and very flexible
- Herold Österreichisches Telefonbuch Home
  3,7 Mio Rufnummern, Eingabe eines Ortes ist für die Suche jedoch zwingend erforderlich, für Windows
  Herold Business Data GmbH, Guntramsdorfer Strasse 105, A-2340 Moedling

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Canada

WWW
- For Canadian yellow pages, white pages, toll-free numbers, regional offerings, etc:
  http://www.contractjobs.com/tel/ (by Robert Hoare)
- For Canadian white pages (but excluding Alberta and Saskatchewan): http://canada411.sympatico.ca/ (Canada411)
CD-ROM
Canada Phone, ProCD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, P.O. Box 2039, Danvers, MA 01923, USA

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Finland

CD-ROM
Fin CD Telecatalogue, Helsinki Telephone Co., Box 148, SF-00131 Helsinki, FINLAND

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France

WWW

http://www.epita.fr/11/english.html (L'annuaire électronique sur le web)
Enter the following département numbers:

	Alsace (Elsass)          Lorraine (Lothringen)
        67      Bas-Rhin         54      Meurthe-et-Moselle
        68      Haut-Rhin        55      Meuse
                                 57      Moselle
                                 88      Vosges

http://www.minitel.fr (Minitel)

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Germany

WWW
- http://www.teleauskunft.de (with directions in English, German and French)
- http://www.etv.de/ (TIV Tele-Info Verlag)
  http://www.Teleinfo.de/ (TIV Tele-Info Verlag)
  English Directions:
  Arriving at the page, click on the link labeled ETV - Telefon-, Branchen- Adreßdatensuche or simply go directly to the form from here. Fill out the form with Name and Ort (town), then press the Anfrage starten (start the search). This will return to you a count of entries found. If you then hit the button a second time with no changes, you will get the actual addresses. Be patient, the server is sometimes busy.
  Other fields:
  
  Beruf = occupation
  Branche = type of business
  Hausnr. = house number
  PLZ = postal code
  Strasse = street
  Vorname = first name
  alle/nur Firmen = all numbers/only businesses
  exakte/ähnliche Namen = exact names only/also include close matches
  keine/nur Mehrwortnamen = no/only multiple word names
  Click on Anfrage starten to start the search.
  Use Löschen to cancel the search.
- Topware
  (German, English, Italian and Dutch user interface)
CD-ROM
1. DeTeMedien
  DeTeMedien offers the Telefonbuch für Deutschland with more than 32 Million telephone numbers for Windows/Macintosh.
2. Teleinfo
  TeleInfo-CD, Teleinfo-Verlag, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 27, D-30827 Garbsen, GERMANY
3. TopWare
  For the PC only.
  TopWare PD Service GmbH, Quadrat O 3,2, 68161 Mannheim, GERMANY, Telephone 0621-1267330, Fax 0621 1267333
Other:
Deutsche Postleitzahlen / German postal codes:
Konversion alt-neu / Conversion old-new (Uni Frankfurt, DE)

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Hungary

WWW
- MATÁV

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Israel

CD-ROM
TalkPhone, Israeli Phone Directory, CDI Systems Ltd., 5 Kiriat-Mada St., Har-Hotzvim, Jerusalem, ISRAEL.

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Italy

WWW & CD-ROM
- Topware
  (German, English, Italian and Dutch user interface)

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Netherlands

WWW
- http://www.Telefoongids.ptt-telecom.nl
  (presented by De Telefoongids - PTT Telecom)
  You need at least a name and town, or an address and town.
- http://www.telefoongids.ptt-telecom.nl/index2.html
  Leider muss man bei der Suche Strasse, Ort und Telefonnumer mit eingeben, vielleicht nicht so gut fuer Genealogie geeignet
- Topware
  (German, English, Italian and Dutch user interface)
CD-ROM
- CD-Foongids
  PTT-Telecom NL, für MS-DOS und Windows,

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Romania

WWW
- http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html (Kapitol International Directories)
  includes Romania
- http://click.mbaldean.com/" At "Pagini Albe si Pagini Aurii" check "Persoane", choose the district you're interested in, type in the surname, and click on "Cauta". Then, click on "Detalii" if the surname is found. You'll have to check all 42 districts to cover the entire country.

Slovenia

WWW
http://tis.telekom.si, Suchmaske auch auf Deutsch und Englisch, sehr gut
CD-ROM
Telefonski Imenik Slovenije 1996/97, Windows, Telekom Slovenije, http://www.telekom.si/

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Switzerland

WWW
CD-ROM
- PTT-Telecom-CD
  Phone: +41-1-800-85456
  (für Windows 3.1 und 95, Lokalisation der gefundenen Rufnummern auf einer Schweizer Landkarte möglich)
- Telinfo 96
  Directmedia, CH-8306 Brüttisellen, Vertrieb: Letec AG, Murwiesenstrasse 7, 8037 Zürich, SWITZERLAND
  Phone +41-1-364-2880, Fax +41-1-364-2890
- TwixTel
  Twix Equipment AG, Gewerbestr. 12, CH-8132 Egg, SWITZERLAND

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United Kingdom (UK)

WWW
CD-ROM
BT

LondonPhone, ProCD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, P.O.Box 2039, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. [Top of document]

United States of America (USA)

WWW
http://www.switchboard.com
CD-ROM
1. USA Phone CD-ROMs are widely available for purchase at most computer software stores in the USA. One may also be accessed free of charge at all Family History Centers and at many public libraries.
2. Phone Disc, DDA Inc.,
  6931 Arlington Road, Suite 405, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
3. SelectPhone
  ProCD Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, P.O. Box 2039, Danvers, MA 01923, USA
4. TopWare PD Service GmbH
  Quadrat O 3,2, 68161 Mannheim, GERMANY, Telephone 0621-1267330, Fax 0621 1267333

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Yugoslavia

WWW
- http://www.contractjobs.com/tel/ (by Robert Hoare)

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Multiple Country Websites

WWW
The following sites offers telephone numbers for several different countries, at last check, including
- http://www.infobel.be/infobel/infobelworld.html (Kapitol International Directories)
  including countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe
- http://www.contractjobs.com/tel by Robert Hoare
  including countries from Argentina to Yugoslavia
- http://www.bawue.de/~hanacek/xyz/phone.htm by Andreas Hanacek
  including countries from Australia to USA
- http://www.mtb-solutions.com/phone/phone.htm by Bob Coret and MTB Solutions
  worldwide
- InfoSpacePeopleFinder: http://www.infospace.com/mage/index.html
- http://www.teldir.com/

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Finding E-mail Addresses

WWW
It is also possible to search for relatives by their Internet address. URL's to perform this on-line search are
- http://altavista.digital.com
- http://www.Four11.com/Sled.html
- Internet Address Finder: http://www.iaf.net/
- WhoWhere: http://www.whowhere.com/

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Last update: 23-Mar-00 (mf)
Contributions by David Schmutz, Wolfhart Seelentag, Dora Selig, and Arthur Teschler.
Created by: Rick Heli
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