Some fun days in February

Thanks to AnnaLisa for giving us information on special days to celebrate this month.

February 4- National Homemade Soup Day

February 6- Ice Cream for Breakfast Day

February 10- National Flannel Day

February 12- Paul Bunyan Day

February 15- Susan B. Anthony Day

February 16- International Pancake Day

February 17- Random Acts of Kindness Day

February 27- National Retro Day

New Screens!

We have started using the new screens now.  Everyone should have received a password and user name to get in.  For now we will only have access to the grid and the obit screen.  Heather G will be working on the update relations page and household view in the coming weeks, so eventually our screens will be very similar to what we had before.

There are a few things to be aware of for now.  

1. The <Enter> button on your keyboard does not advance between fields but saves the record and goes immediately back to the grid.  Giles will attempt to turn this function off.  For now, remember to use Tab to advance between fields.

2. Auto advance does not currently work for dates and states, so you have to hit tab to advance after each entry.

3. The new screens require dashes in blank date fields (two in mm and dd and four in yyyy).

4. If you put your cursor on the dashes to enter a date, it will not let you enter anything until you either delete the dashes or highlight the dashes first.  If you Tab over to the date field, there is no issue entering dates.  

5. Do not hit <Enter> while in the remarks field to create a new line.  Please use a semicolon (;) to separate various remarks.

6. Please use only one URL in a field.

If you have any questions regarding the screen, please send an email to Sandy.  If she cannot answer your question, she will notify Giles and/or add the issue to the google doc of screen issues.

Answer to trivia question

Congratulations to AnnaLisa who got the correct answer to the trivia question!

Q: The only known monotremes in the animal kingdom are the echidna and which other creature?

A: Platypus

Here is a video, so you can learn a little bit more about the platypus.

Here are some fun facts about platypuses.

Some fun days in January

Thanks to AnnaLisa for giving us information on special days to celebrate this month. Personally, I commemorate Peculiar People Day every day. If you decide to celebrate on January 30, please record your neighbors' reactions and share them with us.

Jan 4- National Trivia Day

Jan 10- Peculiar People Day

Jan 11- National Clean Off Your Desk Day

Jan 17- Ben Franklin Day

Jan 19- National Popcorn Day

Jan 20- National Cheese Lovers Day

Jan 22- National Polka Dot Day

Jan 27- National Chocolate Cake Day

Jan 28- Daisy Day

Jan 30- Yodel For Your Neighbors Day

Here is a question to celebrate National Trivia day:

The only known monotremes in the animal kingdom are the echidna and which other creature?

Feel free to answer in the comments. Also, it's okay to look up the answer or the definition of monotreme. No judgment here.

Flash Player end of life

Here is some information about end of life for Adobe Flash.

Action plan

 Here are our priorities:

• Finish up the last little bit of the Grandchildren sample.
• Death date search
• Data integrity checks
• 1,067 sons
• Collect birth date, death date, 1930 census, 1940 census for the sons (grandsons of the vets) of these sons
• Collect birth and death dates for the wives of these sons and grandsons of the vets
• Sample A draft cards
• Input height/weight/date from WWII draft cards for all Sample A grandsons
• Sample B draft cards/census links
• For all grandsons, input height/weight/date from WWII draft cards and 1930/1940 census links
• Samples A & B wives
• Collect birth and death dates for the wives of the Sample A and Sample B sons and grandsons

Action plan:

1. Finish Grandchildren sample
1. Please have your death date searches finished this week. You may ask others for help with your lists.
2. I will email you any corrections you need to make for data integrity checks.
2. Sample A draft cards
1. Begin work on this as soon as you're finished with the death date search.
3. 1,067 sons
1. Once we get a final sample for this collection we will begin it, even if we haven't finished collecting Sample A draft cards
4. Sample B draft cards/census links
5. Samples A & B wives

I will email instructions before we begin each item.

Grandchildren progress report - December 16

 Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, December 16, 2020.

We're finished! Great work everyone!

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	976	850	1826
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	28	9	37
% Sample Completed	--	--	100
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			100
Total Grandchildren Sample B (including new)	--	--	23023
New Grandchildren Added	1159	1156	2315
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	11049	11973	23023
Birth Dates Added	11004	11926	22434
Death Dates Added	9982	10883	20412
Living Grandchildren	78	61	139

Sample B = 1827 (on duplicate soldier)   Total Sample (A & B) = 2825