Posted on Monday 3 December 2007
The first 104 years of British directories have been digitised into a searchable archive starting from 1880 with a rare telephone
book. It took just over two years to digitise the 280 million names that can help you find out where your forebears lived.
The 280 million names and addresses include, David Lloyd George, who was listed in 1904 to live on 136 Balham, and writer Evelyn Waugh (1937), married to Laura Herbert and living in the village of Dursley, Gloucestershire, number 250.
Other interesting names that can be found are T.S Eliot, P.G Wodehouse, Alfred Hitchcock and Virginia Woolf.
You can search the digital archive at www.Ancestry.co.uk
By Michou Gerits