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Electoral Roll?

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Lallie

Lallie Report 11 May 2011 20:24

Hi, just tuned in after computer went belly up for few weeks. Where would I now find some one to help me with electoral roll findings?? I have tried to search but to no avail.
Thank you.
Lallie

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 11 May 2011 20:58

There's just nobody around these days, I'm afraid. We need to take up a collection and pay for a sub and assign somebody the job!

One thing I can suggest is that googling sometimes works better than a free search at 192.com. You may have to do it a number of times to train your google for what you want.

Try googling, e.g.,

"Jane Q Smith" www.192.com

the first few times. The thing is that you then get results that show you a location -- city, county and first part of postcode -- whereas using 192.com directly will only get you the name.

You can then check at BT online to see whether you can find a matching entry.

You can also do it the other way: find the J Smiths in the probable location at BT on line, then search at 192.com for Smith with the postcode from the BT listing to see who that Smith is. I often manage to match up entries that way -- the household at 192.com is correct (right person with right spouse), and matches an address found at BT.

Another tip for 192.com is how to avoid the "you have exceeded the maximum number of free searches" problem.

Go to where cookes are in your browser -- in Firefox it's Tools, Options, Show Cookies -- select the 192.com cookies, and delete them. **Be careful not to click "delete all cookes"!**

Then you can start over again.


It's make do and mend for us these days!


The BT search page for info:

http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/residential/search.publisha

Researching:
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Lallie

Lallie Report 12 May 2011 17:32

Thank you Janey will give it a go. :D

Contrary Mary

Contrary Mary Report 12 May 2011 19:04


" We need to take up a collection and pay for a sub and assign somebody the job!"

I'm the 1st to volunteer! :D

Mary

JaneyCanuck

JaneyCanuck Report 12 May 2011 19:34

You got a paypal account?

If only I had a working credit card ... but I'll encourage everybody else to kick in $5 in their local currency! ;)

Researching:
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Kay????

Kay???? Report 12 May 2011 19:45

Lallie PM me.

Contrary Mary

Contrary Mary Report 12 May 2011 23:08


Janey

I'm seriously getting so bored not having any interesting lookups to do (the find living rellies board just ain't working in it's current format is it?!) - that I'm almost at the point of buying a month's subscription on one of the ER sites just to give me something to do. :-)


Mary