100-year-old Phone books online

People searching their ancestry have been given an online boost after BT launched more than one hundred years of their phone books on the web.

The company hopes to tap into the nation’s huge interest in genealogy by allowing users to trawl through millions of names, addresses and phone numbers covering the period 1880 to 1984. It is not just old relations that may turn up in the pages.

Read Them @ ancestry.co.uk