January 2016 Checking Stats

In January, we checked 42 soldiers under our new system. I've reviewed all of the checks, and I've tallied the number of differences. Some of these are errors, and some are judgment calls. Here are the categories and the total number of differences for each category.

GRID Errors

• MILIN?/MAR? - 5
• Missing HH member - 11
• Duplicate people - 1
• Wrong person - 1

Inferred Relationships

• Incorrect relationships - 16

Census Errors

• Name - 44
• Typo/Reading/Wrong - 122
• State Code - 0
• Missing/Wrong URL - 5
• Missing data - 60
• Additional finds - 13
• Quality Code - 19

Death Errors

• Typo/Reading/Wrong - 9
• Missing data - 15
• Missing/Wrong URL/Source - 14
• Quality Code - 7
• Additional finds - 13

Tree Errors

• Missing/Incorrect information/relationships - 14

The total number of errors for all 42 soldiers is 369. Some differences/errors affect the data more than others. If we checked other pensions, we'd probably find similar differences. The inputter whose checks were the best, with a total of about 3 differences, was Irene.