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From: chavey@speedy.WISC.EDU (Darrah Chavey)
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Subject: Re: Census information
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 10:52:58 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 10:52:58 1987
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Summary: What data is this?
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In article <717@ima.ISC.COM>, johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) writes:
> 
> If you want census data and don't want to wait, you can get it on diskette
> from Public Brand Software in Indianapolis very cheaply.  The entire
> country by county is about a dozen disks for $60, or if you just want
> certain areas you can order the disks individually for $5 each.  New England
> and New York, for example, are one disk.  You'll also want the master disk
> which explains some of the coding and has an extract program, also for $5.
> They appear only to have the latest 1980 census, but it sure is a lot of
> stuff for $5.

What data is on this?  Obviously this is not individual census records; the
Census Bureau has a 70 year confidentiality rule.  I assume all you get are
gross statistics about the census, which is pretty useless to genealogists.


	Darrah Chavey
	Computer Sciences Department
	University of Wisconsin, Madison WI
	chavey@cs.wisc.edu    ...{ihnp4,seismo,allegra}!uwvax!chavey