Thematic maps on the US Census factfinder

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I'm trying to create thematic maps of ancestry based on the new FactFinder (which is purely awful), but their instructions are terribly unclear and I can never get to create a map even when I have a "table that displays more than one geography of the same type (more than one state, more than one county, etc.)"

Anybody with more experience with this awful FactFinder crap have any experience and is willing to help me create a map?

[Willy Woz]

I have had some experience with the factfinder (the new one) but I'm not exactly sure how to access the ancestry options. I would suggest searching on the Association of Religious Data Archives, which although primarily a database studying religion in the US includes a number of maps about census data. Here is a useful link:

http://www.thearda.com/mapsReports/maps/StateMaps.asp

The maps are create-your-own, but once you get the hang of it they're pretty easy to generate.

[jimrtex]

I'm trying to create thematic maps of ancestry based on the new FactFinder (which is purely awful), but their instructions are terribly unclear and I can never get to create a map even when I have a "table that displays more than one geography of the same type (more than one state, more than one county, etc.)"

Anybody with more experience with this awful FactFinder crap have any experience and is willing to help me create a map?

The problem is that you can't display ratios of two values.   So you can create a thematic map based on numbers of Danes, but not percentage of Danes.

But here is how you can do that (totals not percentage)

Under Topics, select Year: 2010; and Program: American Community Survey.

Under Geography, check All States in United States, and click on Add.

Under Topics, select People, Origins, Ancestry and check First Ancestry (5 year) and Click on View.

Click on Create A Map, and then click on the row you want to display and Show Map.

You may want to set transparency to 0%.

[nclib]

Yeah, the new factfinder is terrible. Is there even a simple way to get 2010 demographics for CD's, state legis. districts, precincts, etc.? Also, how can one set up data for CD within a county and various geographic distinctions.