Weekly update - March 30, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 30, 2022.  

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,444 of 1826 soldiers or 79.1%

o   Including 8,666 of 11,273 granddaughters or 76.9%

Weekly update - March 9, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 9, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 1,141 of 1826 soldiers or 62.5%

o   Including 6,607 of 11,264 granddaughters or 58.7%

 

Nothing else to report. We continue to make rapid progress on the granddaughters.

Weekly update - March 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for March 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 977 of 1826 soldiers or 53.5%

o   Including 5,814 of 11,264 granddaughters or 51.6%

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is preparing the grandchildren data for public release. We still need to finalize the code book and double check the data.

Weekly update - February 23, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 23, 2022. 

Granddaughters of Veterans

• Sample B granddaughters.

    We have completed 900 of 1826 soldiers or 49.3%

    Including 5,351 of 11,264 granddaughters or 47.5%

Wives

• There are a few small problems for Heather to fix, but Coralee will probably be ready to send the wives sample to Dora tomorrow (2/24). 

• QUESTION: Some of the wives in the sample are grandchildren of the vet who married first cousins. Our rule has always been to mark relationships on the grid in the direct line to the vet, so they are all marked as grandchildren (or children of children of the vet) not as spouses. Should we somehow indicate in the data that these are grandchildren as well as spouses of other grandchildren?

Dora's answer: useful to be able to identify that a spouse is a veteran descendant so, yes, please do indicate that.

Weekly update - February 2, 2022

Here is our weekly update for February 2, 2022.

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 588 of 1826 soldiers or 32.2%

o   Including 3,612 of 11,264 granddaughters or 32.1%

o   Progress will slow because only Noelle and Heather are working on it.

Grandchildren

·         Coralee is finalizing the Grandchildren data to release.

Wives

·         Coralee is compiling the new (corrected) data with the targeted wives for Dora. Since we finished correcting the GEDCOMs, Coralee is extracting that data and will download VCC data today.

Grandchildren Links to 1940

·         Coralee did some calculations regarding merging the two different 1940 full census sources, and looked closely at the occupation coding in the full-count file that she was using to retrieve the occupation codes.

o   She thinks it would take months longer to complete the merging process and have all of their codes. There are a lot of inconsistencies in their coding that she can't account for, and a lot of differences between their coding and our coding.

o   It will be faster and consistent with the rest of our data for us to code the occupations ourselves.

Sample Descriptions

·         We have been working on a Google sheet with descriptions of all our samples.

·         We’ve included the following information:

o   Project (sample name)

o   Dates

o   Number in sample/description

o   What was collected

o   Which data collection screens used

o   Where data is available

o   Who worked on it

o   Is there a codebook for the sample

·         Dora let us know if you would like us to share it with you.

Weekly update - January 12, 2022

Here is our weekly update for January 12, 2022. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve completed data collection for the restricted sample of wives.

 

Granddaughters of Veterans

·         We are working on Sample B granddaughters.

o   We have completed 196 of 1826 soldiers or 10.7%

o   Including 1,226 of 11,264 granddaughters or 10.9%

 

·         As a reminder, we are collecting the following for all granddaughters in Grands Sample B:

o   Name and gender input on the obit screen

o   Birth information attached to the tree

o   Death information attached to the tree

o   1930 census attached to the tree

o   1940 census attached to the tree

o   Limited fields for 1940 input on the obit screen (if not already collected in the VCC) for the granddaughter as well as for her spouse if they are found together in 1940

§  Marital status

§  Grade completed

§  Occupation and industry

§  Income

§  Other income (y/n)

§  Head of household (x)

§  Owns or rents (if granddaughter or her spouse is the head of household)

§  Value of home (if granddaughter or her spouse is the head of household)

Weekly update - December 15, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 15, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 10,778 wives of 9,924 sons and grandsons

·         Only one person is still working on wives. We are deciding whether another person can help her finish.

 

# Sons of veteran	3352
# Grandsons of veteran	6572
# Wives of sons and grandsons	10778
# Veterans complete	1932
Total # veterans	1959
% sample complete	98.6

 

·         Limited 1940 census variables for Sample B grandsons

o   Those of us who have finished our work on the wives sample are adding 1940 variables to the death screen for grandsons

o   We have completed 1026 soldiers or 56.2% of Sample B

·         It will not take us much longer to finish the limited 1940 variables. What should we do next? Add death screens for Sample B granddaughters?

 

MVCC Update

Now that finals are over, Giles is waiting to be set up as an NBER consultant before resuming work on the MVCC screen fixes, changes and report functions.