Villages Phone Book
 

Is it necessary to have a land line phone to be listed in The Villages Phone Book? It seems people in larger numbers are dropping their land lines. Cell phones seem to be taking over.

No. We do not have land lines in the phone book. Our cells including area code are listed.

PLUS. After each listing is the person or couples last city of residence. (Where they are moving from)

In the past, having a number listed in the phone book was a certain invitation to be called by telemarketers, charities and politicians. Does it work that way in TV as well? If so, I would not want my cell phone listed. I hope there is an option to opt out on the listing, or perhaps just provide an email address. If not, I'll probably just provide a fictitious number.

Phony Phone Book
 

The Villages Phone Book is a private publication. It is not generated from phone company records. You can have an "Unlisted Number" and still be in The Villages Phone Book if you'd like. You can choose to be de-listed from next year's edition if you'd like too. Distribution is limited to inside The Villages only. Not sure if the advertisers get a free copy too. (Probably!) When you bought your home, you gave permission to be listed in that publication - or you opted out. Tele-marketers have no remote access to these listings.

Don't want to be called by tele-marketers? Add your name to the Florida Do Not Call List.

Skip

Just to support Skips comment, advertisers DO get a copy of TV phone book.

Tear Sheet
 

That figures. What a "tear sheet", huh?

On-line?
 

I realize the post is 3 years old but, is the Villages Phone Book available electronically or on-line? It would e great to search by state.
Thanks,
JIM

I thought the same thing. I already ran into a few people we knew from NY. I wound how many others are there. My wife was a teacher and while in TV she ran into one of her students parents at Walmart.

Phone books
 

I agree with an online version. It wouldn't take much to offer a data base to search by name, city or state. It would be fun to see who you could find.

Maybe we could suggest it to the "higher Powers". I too would like to search for folks from my home town.

Bob

On the surface it does sound like a good idea, but did anyone stop to think that if you can get online access to a TV phone database, so could telemarketers, politicans, political organizations, various causes, etc., etc., etc.?
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It could be in a private database that has to be logged into with username and password and that would keep telemarketers, etc. out.

Once on line all the tele-marketers would have a field day.

X-acto knife, a scanner some time and everything can be in a PDF file. Now the problem of keeping it updated is another thing. Sounds like a good winter project but I have to get a spare new phone book first.

VG