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Phone Directories on the Web
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Find phone numbers for missing friends and relatives, courthouses, record offices and more around the world with these Internet phone search and directory sites.

555-1212.com
This commercial site provides quick, accurate results when searching for phone numbers in the U.S. and Canada and includes many helpful search options such as reverse lookup. The service has recently moved to subscription-only, so you will have to pay a fee to search this database.

About Yellow Pages - Reverse Lookups
Web Search Guide, Kevin Elliott, shows you how to use the reverse search and lookup tools available in About's Yellow Pages directory to find people in the U.S. and Canada, starting with just a phone number, street address, or email address.

Advanced Use of Phone Directories
A wonderful article by Kathleen W. Hinckley, on the best methods for finding lost friends or relatives using Online Directories.

AnyWho.com
This popular phone directory lookup service provides public information obtained from local telephone records for published telephone listings. These listings can range from three months to six months old and are updated every three months.

Australia White Pages Online
Comprehensive, easy phone number look-up provided by Telstra, Australia's leading phone company. Restricted search capabilitities -- must search by name and state.

Canada 411
Search through over 12 million listings across Canada.

Das Telefonbuch - Germany White Pages
This user-friendly phone directory for Germany offers a variety of search options. Also in English and French.

Fresh Address
A free worldwide registry of old and working email addresses. People can register their current address along with any additional working and obsolete email addresses, so friends can find them even if they only know an old address.

Greek Telephone Directories
The Greece white pages search enables you to find telephone numbers, names or addresses of all OTE subscribers in Greece. Also in English.

InfoUSA Directory Assistance
This easy-to-use U.S. phone directory service allows you to search for people by name or phone number. Also includes a Canadian white pages directory.

International White and Yellow Pages
A good listing of online phone directories for countries in Africa, North America, South America, Asia, Europe and the South Pacific.

InfoBel.com
This Web site includes comprehensive updated White and Yellow pages for more than 187 countries. Reverse Search, Nationwide Search and other search options are available.

Les Pages Jaunes
This French phone directory service allows you to search the database of over 32 million French telephone subscribers. Includes a reverse search option. Also in English.

Switchboard
A free nationwide residential and business telephone directory of the US. Its "find people" feature is ideally suited to tracing long-lost (or short-lost) relatives.

Telefonski imenik Slovenije - Slovenia Telephone Directory
This national telephone directory for Slovenia includes keyword and category search. Information provided includes addresses, telephone numbers and fax (where available). In Slovenian. Sri Lanka

WhitePages.com
This popular phone directory search engine allows you to search U.S. and Canadian residential listings by name, phone number or address and includes the ability to search for names or listings on a national level.

WhoWhere
Includes searchable and browseable directories for phone numbers, email, personal Web pages, SEC filings, yellow pages and more. You can search based on affiliations like occupation, school or interests.

Worldwide Telephone Directories
Need a phone number in France? South Africa? TelDir.com includes links to Yellow Pages, White Pages, Business Directories and Fax Listings from over 170 countries all around the world.

Discreet Research, Inc.
A public records information service. Information reports come from many electronic public record filings, databases, public record vendors, court records, state repository databases, etc.

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