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With 160,000 new Electoral Roll records just added to 192.com, it’s time to get started on your Christmas card list.

On 192.com you can check residential addresses and business addresses all in one go. So whether you’re preparing the family Christmas card list or if you’ve been left with a list of illegible addresses from your boss, check true and current addresses online now.

With 6 weeks until Christmas, now is also the ideal time to trace family and friends that you haven’t spoken to in years.  We love hearing family reunion stories at this time of year. Not only is reuniting with long lost relatives the best present you can give, it’s often also the cheapest!

Recently, we’ve heard from Jo, who’d lost touch with her father’s side of the family when her mother moved to Australia. After 20 years, she’s now been reunited with this side of the family & says,

“Christmas in 2009 will be unlike any other for my family and me. The incredible feeling that I am the luckiest person in the world will remain with me forever“. Read Jo’s full story >>

Nikki will be spending the first Christmas with her sister, mum and nan after two decades. Nikki got the family back together by tracing her sister on 192.com. With neither sister listed on Facebook or any other social networking site, they wouldn’t have been able to find each other any other way. Read Nikki’s full story >>

So what are you waiting for? Get started with your Christmas card list today. There are no excuses for having unsent cards with only partial addresses left on the sideboard this year!

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After the hugely successful launch of the ‘Say No To Phonebooks’ campaign (which currently has over 5,350 signatures), I’ve had a few people ask me how they can make sure they get free directory enquiry results on 192.com. To clear up any confusion here is a simple explanation that I hope you will all find helpful.

10 free directory enquiry searches per day are available to anyone who isn’t signed in or hasn’t got any credits on their account.

Below is an example of the results shown when I conducted a search when I wasn’t logged in. 

As you can see the Free Listings are given at the top of the screen. These are taken from the telephone directory database and to see these you have to enter a surname and location otherwise we will return no free results. Something to note is that Directory Enquiry results list by first initial only so if you are searching for a John or a Jane the result shown will always just be a J.

Below these is what we call Premium Results. These are Electoral Roll or Director Report results that match the search. You can see clearly what Electoral Roll they are taken from below the name. If you are being asked to purchased credits it will be because you are clicking on one of these results as we do charge to view Electoral Roll records, if you have already purchased credits you just need to sign in at this point. If it is a historic Electoral Roll record, this is anything that isn’t the current year (eg 2002-2008) you will also need to purchase an additional membership be it EAA or EAM. This is explained in more detail when you go to select your credit package.

I hope that this helps clear up any confusion.