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From: Robert Wallace <>
Subject: Re: [AYR] [LKS] American Telephone Directories
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:15:16 -0500


Pat Bowmaster's suggestion is excellent. But you'll need a specific street
address.

www.mapquest.com is the best site I've found for locating a specific address
- or for a city in general. I've use it to plan vacations - and it's free.
Also, I have done people searches and located individuals by email addresses
as well as street addresses. Mapquest can just about deliver you to the
doorstep. However I have discovered the driving directions can be a little
confusing - and erroneous in a few instances.

To cite a couple of examples, I lost track of a cousin and a cousin I had
not seen since college - 40 plus years ago. One rainy Sunday afternoon I
went to a people search engine, and within a half dozen hits I found her
living in California. Name, phone number and street address. Both she and
her husband are prominent in their separate academic disciplines which might
have made the search easier.

Another people search engine I like is www.metacrawler,com and click on
white pages. I've used that to locate people I don't even know. For
instance, I was attempting to locate one of my surnames in the state of
Washington. I plugged in the last name and the state, and voila -. A print
out of all known people with that surname. Unless you can pinpoint a
particular city, you might have an inordinate number of names to sift
though.

Hope I've helped. Good luck.

Bob Wallace
Chattanooga Tennessee

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