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Example 2: I need a list of all the county courts in Wisconsin.

You may do this search in one of two ways.

One way would be to choose the Custom Search, and select Company Name, State, and Government Offices as search criteria. Type in "county court" as the Company Name. Choose "Wisconsin" as the State. Select "County" as the Government Offices level.

You'll see a list of 105 records. In some cases, you'll see 2 or more listings for different areas of the court, or related offices like the Adams County Court Reporter."

 

Another way to do the search would have been to locate the SIC code for county court houses. Start with a Custom Search and choose Primary SIC Code, State, and Government Offices as search criteria. Enter 921103 as Primary SIC Code, "Wisconsin" as the State, and "County" as the Government Offices level.

If you do not know the SIC code, you can find that information out in a variety of ways. You can do a search at the SIC web site, click the SIC Codes link in ReferenceUSA (pop up screen results shown above), or you could have chosen Yellow Pages Headings instead of Primary SIC Code from the Custom Search screen. Yellow Pages Headings would allow you to choose appropriate SIC codes based on the words you entered, such as "courts."

This brings up more results (231) to look through. Though this seems to have less specific results, it may be better than a Company Name search because it's more inclusive. In this example, for instance, two records for Ashland County appear, whereas none appeared in the Company Name search - becuase the words "county" or "courts" did not appear in both Ashland entries.

In either case, once you've identified the relevant records, you may select one or many records and then print them or save them.

 

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