British Phone Books, 1880-1984, the contents of BT Archives' historical phone book collection on Ancestry.com, will also be available in Ancestry Library Edition, the public library version of this popular product, ProQuest Information and Learning announced today...BT Archives’ collection of phone books is the most complete set of British telephone directories in existence and contains in excess of 250 million names, greater than the English, Welsh, and Scottish Census collections combined. The 430 London books alone (which include the counties of Surrey, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent and Middlesex) contain more than 72 million names. The first records to be launched are the phone books for Greater London, which reveal many interesting insights into the social history of the past hundred years.
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