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By Lisa Louise Cooke Premium

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One way to get around unpublished phone numbers is to go through a town’s old telephone books. If someone’s lived in the same town for a while, you might locate a listing prior to his or her unpublished-number status. Here are some resources for tracking down telephone directories:   • The Library of Congress: For View Website VIP Subscription

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