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From: Cindy Amrhein <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Re:any one know web site that
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:24:53 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <b7.3ea7aafc.2da4cb64@aol.com>


I've used the "How Much is That?" site also to figure
out the value of land sales in the early 1800s,
compared to what it would be today. If you go to the
root directory of their site you can get their other
links to figure out gold and english pounds etc.
http://eh.net/hmit/
To take this a step further you can see how much
everything cost, what people were paid for what job,
what hogs were selling for, etc at the National Bureau
of Economic Research
http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/index.html
Scroll to the bottom for your choices.
For example: In 1914 the average weekly pay for an
office worker was $19.18 by 1938 it was $34.19. If you
look at the "dat" file that lines up the year (and
sometimes month too) with the amount you may have to
stretch it with your mouse so the columns line up, but
a really useful and interesting site. You then could
use the "How much is that" site above to convert that
weekly pay to today. Fun huh?
Cindy


--- wrote:
> You cannot get the actual cost of things, but you
> can find out the value of a
> dollar relative to today's dollar at
> http://www.eh.net/hmit/ppowerusd/
> Connie Moretti
> Redondo Beach, CA
>
>
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Cindy Amrhein
Historian/Abstractor

Town of Alabama Historian
Genesee Co., NY

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