johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine) (09/22/87)
In article <3695@pogo.TEK.COM> rickc@pogo.UUCP (Rick Clements) writes: >...I also requested census information. You can >also request hard copy. I was told it would take a four to six weeks. It >was over six months. ... 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. -- John R. Levine, Cambridge MA, +1 617 492 3869 { ihnp4 | decvax | cbosgd | harvard | yale }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.something The Iran-Contra affair: None of this would have happened if Ronald Reagan were still alive.
chavey@speedy.WISC.EDU (Darrah Chavey) (09/22/87)
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