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   Charles Ellson to MB@nospam.net   
   Re: Addresses of manses . . .   
   07 May 18 11:42:02   
   
   From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Mon, 7 May 2018 10:32:09 +0100, MB  wrote:   
      
   >On 03/05/2018 09:19, john wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Ancestry has British Phone Books 1880-1984. A search with an Event in   
   >> the 1940s Location Inverness and Keyword Manse gives results but you   
   >> will need to look at each directory page to get the address itself.   
   >   
   >I use the phone books a lot but the search system is very poor.   
   >   
   >It insists on a surname so I can't see how you can search just on   
   >keyword "manse".   
   >   
      
   The Ancestry software only seems to guess what is a surname by its   
   position in the directory entry. You will probably pick up a few   
   entries by putting "Manse" as a name.   
      
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