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Is 597 bits as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records?

It's about 0.00000000000010 times as much as The Ancestry.com's Census Records
The amount of The Ancestry.com's Census Records is about 5,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 bits.
(2006 figures) (1790 to 1930 records only)
Updated in 2006 through a one-of-a-kind project, the genealogical research site Ancestry.com added 540 million names from records in the 1790 to 1930 US Census, capturing a total of 5,000,000,000,000,000.000000000000000000 bits of data. According to company estimates, the project took 6.6 million hours (750 person-years) to complete.
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