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Phone Books
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 411.com 
 This website provides "online directory assistance services to consumers." It includes white pages, yellow pages, a reverse phone directory, and tools for finding area codes and ZIP codes. The listing information "comes from publicly available local telephone records for published telephone listings. Non-published or unlisted numbers may appear if the number is still being provided by directory assistance." Includes a form for removing a listing. http://www.411.com Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Aug 2, 2005 All Nations Expatriates and Travelers Telephone Search Engine
Search by choosing the country you are trying to phone. Results will include the correct dialing prefix and may also have links to pertinent online telephone directories. http://www.escapeartist.com/global/telephone.htm Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 20, 2004 AnyWho Online Directory: Toll-Free Numbers
A directory of toll-free telephone numbers. Searchable by business name. From AT&T. http://www.anywho.com/tf.html Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated May 3, 2005 AnyWho: Internet Directory Assistance
This United States telephone directory from AT&T allows reverse phone number lookups and provides maps and directions for people and businesses found. Has white pages, yellow pages, toll-free listings, and links to other national online phone books. E-mail, Web page, FAX, and toll-free Number information is included if supplied by users. http://www.anywho.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 2, 2003 AT&T Traveler: Plans and Services
Find country and city telephone dialing codes around the world. Select the country and then click on Country Code in the dialing instructions to get the country code and a list of codes for cities in that country. http://www.usa.att.com/traveler/services/index.jsp Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Feb 9, 2004 AT&T Yellow Pages
"AT&T has digitized select white and yellow pages printed directories and made them available over the Internet." Registration required. Search by keyword or phone number for directories in selected areas of 12 states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wisconsin). From AT&T. http://www.attrealyponline.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Jun 8, 2007 California On-Line Directory (COLD)
COLD is an online version of the California state telephone book "designed to improve access to government information and services for state employees, local government and the general public." Locate state employees, agencies,and more. Includes a state governmental organization chart. Searchable. http://www.cold.ca.gov/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jan 11, 2004 Country and City Telephone Codes by LDPost
Searchable directory of international country and city telephone dialing codes. Provided by a long distance telephone company. http://www.longdistancepost.com/Country_City_Telephone_Codes.htm Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 17, 2002 First Phone Directory
Text of "the first telephone directory for San Francisco [California]" that was also "the second directory issued in the United States." It was originally published in June 1878 by the American Speaking Telephone Company. Transcribed from Telephone Directory, San Francisco, 1878 . A part of San Francisco Genealogy . http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/hgtel.htm Topics: California: History by Place, California: People, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated May 10, 2005 Go Toll Free: The Internet 800 Directory
This directory of 800/888/877/866/855 telephone numbers is searchable by product, service, company name, or toll-free number. http://inter800.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated May 3, 2005 Infobel (Telephone Directories on the Web)
Includes links to online telephone, fax, and business directories from around the world. Includes white pages, yellow pages, and toll-free directories. http://www.infobel.com/World/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jun 13, 2007 Long Distance AREA DECODER
This handy device will give you the appropriate country, city or area code for dialing locales around the world. It will also quote you AmeriCom's per-minute connection charges. http://decoder.americom.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Aug 6, 2002 NANPA: North American Numbering Plan Administration [Area Codes]
Find area codes (known officially as Numbering Plan Areas, or NPAs) by state, country, or number. Includes area codes introduced since 1995, and planned NPAs not yet in service. Also find a discussion of how area codes are constructed. From the North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA), an agency responsible for the numbering plan for the Public Switched Telephone Network for Canada, the United States and its territories, and the Caribbean. http://www.nanpa.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Aug 19, 2005 PagesJaunes
A telephone and address directory for France, with a database of yellow and white pages searchable by personal or business name, town, and region. Results show exact matches and French sound-alikes, maps, and Web links and photographs for businesses. In addition, the site provides links to similar directories around the world. Also available in French. http://wgc.pagesjaunes.fr/pb.cgi?lang=en Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 5, 2004 PhoneSpell
Use this simple form to learn what words and phrases your phone number spells. Enter the full phone number, the start of a phone number, letters (to find the corresponding numbers), or a 16-digit Wii friend code (for Nintendo Wii). The site notes that "some numbers just have such odd combinations of letters and/or too many zeroes and ones that they simply do not have good mnemonics." Created by an Internet consultant. http://phonespell.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 9, 2007 Sección Amarilla
Available only in Spanish, yellow pages directory for Mexico. Search by company or business and limit by state. http://www.seccionamarilla.com.mx/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 3, 2007 Superpages.com
Access to millions of U.S. and Canadian white and yellow page listings of people, government offices, and businesses. Search for a listing by name, address, business category, phone number, or address. Formerly InfoSpace.com. http://www.superpages.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Aug 28, 2008 Switchboard
Claims phone numbers for 93 million people and 11 million businesses. Queries can be made with just a name or searches can be narrowed by state or city. http://www.switchboard.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Aug 6, 2002 Temporary Telephone Directory, San Francisco, May 12, 1906
Images of the complete text of the San Francisco Temporary Telephone Directory, published in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake by the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company. Browsable by page. From the Web site, San Francisco Genealogy. http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/1906t/may06.htm Topics: California: History, California: History by Place, California: People, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Mar 16, 2005 Ultimate White Pages
If you need to find a telephone number fast, try this handy tool for searching online residential telephone books. Simply type into the Yahoo boxes the name, city, and state (or as much as you know) of the person you are looking for, and the site will copy the information to the other five white pages search engines (WhoWhere, Switchboard, Infospace, AnyWho, and Worldpages). Choose one to search (it opens a new window), come back, search another, etc. You can also do reverse number lookups and map searches from this page. The site also offers fast forms for e-mail lookups, yellow pages, and trip planning. http://www.theultimates.com/white/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Dec 23, 2003 Which Phone Book?
To find out which telephone book (or books) covers a particular town in California, all you need to do is get to this site and type in the name of the town (or at least the first four letters). You can also produce a list of telephone books that include a particular area code. A very handy site. Includes special lists of San Francisco Bay Area phone books and Los Angeles Area phone books. Continuously updated by the Santa Cruz Public Libraries. But note: California only. http://www.santacruzpl.org/phone/ Topics: California, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Dec 23, 2003 WhitePages.com
Telephone directory for U.S. and Canadian individuals and businesses. Also includes reverse directories for telephone numbers and for street addresses, and direct and reverse directories for area and ZIP codes. "A variety of sources are used to provide the most accurate search results available for publicly available contact information in the United States and Canada." http://www.whitepages.com/ Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Nov 16, 2006 whitepages.com.au
Australian telephone directory. Includes postcodes, dialing codes, and a link to their Yellow Pages Online. http://www.whitepages.com.au/ Topics: Discover New Trails at LII, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Regions of the World, Technology Last updated Jan 23, 2006 Yahoo! People Search
Search on name, domain, city, or state to find email and telephone white-pages information. Returns from the telephone search provide address, phone number, and links to maps; advanced email search lets you specify address as well as organization (such as a company or school). http://people.yahoo.com/ Topics: Internet Guides & Search Tools, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jun 13, 2005 Yahoo! Phone Numbers and Addresses
A directory of websites providing phone numbers, addresses, and other contact information. Topics include area codes, businesses, celebrities, classmates, email addresses, international dialing codes, postal information, and telephone directories. http://dir.yahoo.com/Reference/Phone_Numbers_and_Addresses/ Topics: Internet Guides & Search Tools, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts Last updated Jun 12, 2005 Yellowpages.com.au
A classified telephone directory for Australian businesses, products, and services. http://www.yellowpages.com.au/ Topics: Discover New Trails at LII, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Regions of the World, Technology Last updated Feb 18, 2006 ZabaSearch
This site searches for addresses, phone numbers, and birth years for individuals in the U.S. It "accesses public information and displays what is available in the public domain." Also includes suggestions for preventing personal information from becoming widely available and a link to an article about why this type of search is legal. Background check information is available for a fee. http://www.zabasearch.com Topics: Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Ready Reference & Quick Facts, Technology Last updated Jul 26, 2005 |
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