Progress report as of April 27

Here is our progress as of April 27, 2016. We've slowed down a little because of all the checking everyone has had to do. Sorry.

	Project 1	Project 2 - USCT
	n = 8,500	n = 4,500
Total soldiers complete	2977	649
Soldiers completed during last 2 weeks	89	57
Soldiers w/o children (to be removed from sample)	313	134
Soldiers with children complete	2664	515
% with children complete	31.3	11.4

Cause of death duration

Recently, we've noticed that there is some confusion about the duration for the cause of death. Sandy has written some clarifying information.

On duration of death cause, only include the actual time frame that is listed on the death certificate.  DO NOT infer a duration based on the dates the doctor attended the patient.   We really don't make estimates or inferences.  However, if duration says 2 1/2 weeks, for example, you may change that into days so it fits our field, or 20 hours can be 1 day, but please put a  note in remarks with the exact figure.  Do not make any other inferences.  Doctor's time attending patient is just that.  Patient could have been sick for weeks, months, or years before that particular doctor attended him.

Open families

We have noticed that some of you are working on multiple families at the same time.

Do not do this.

In general, you should work on one family until it is complete then move on to the next. There are some exceptions to this rule, such as: you're waiting for me to make a deletion or correction to your file, or there is some kind of a problem with the database or the family tree. Do your best to complete a family before moving on.

It is too confusing to be working on multiple families at the same time. You forget what information applies to which family. It potentially reduces the quality of your work, and it is less efficient (therefore, more time consuming) to go in and out of files over and over again.

Additionally, having multiple open families makes record keeping more difficult and less accurate. This affects the updates I provide to our PI.

Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

Relative finder

Here is a fun website AnnaLisa told me about. You may log in with your Family Search username/password. It will tell you various people you're related to. Here is a link to the site.

Have fun!

More link rates - All daughters

We know that locating daughters in the census can be difficult. As the following table shows, we do a pretty good job.

	1900		1910		1920		1930		1940		Ever Linked		Death
# Searched Project 1-White non-POW	5,103		4,937		4,747		4,443		3,937		5,606		5,606
	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%
All Daughters	4,158	81.5	3,728	75.5	3,407	71.8	3,049	68.6	2,359	59.9	5,598	99.8	4,017	71.7
Outside Veteran's Household	2,143	42.0	2,972	60.2	3,134	66.0	2,991	67.3	2,355	59.8	4,178	74.5	na	na
# Searched Project 2 - USCT	856		851		827		797		775		940		939*
	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%
All Daughters	497	58.1	344	40.4	249	30.1	172	21.6	121	15.6	937	99.7	261	27.8
Outside Veteran's Household	155	18.1	229	26.9	218	26.4	167	21.0	121	15.6	416	44.3	na	na
# Searched POW	3,661		3,546		3,396		3,182		2,863		4,100		4,100
	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%
All Daughters	2,903	79.3	2,541	71.7	2,300	67.7	2,008	63.1	1,549	54.1	3,881	94.7	2,749	67.0
Outside Veteran's Household	1,347	36.8	1,945	54.9	2,117	62.3	1,981	62.3	1,547	54.0	2,758	67.3	na	na
# Searched Andersonville Siblings	267		257		243		227		204		282		282
	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%	# found	%
All Daughters	205	76.8	173	67.3	159	65.4	137	60.4	104	51.0	282	100.0	171	60.6
Outside Veteran's Household	128	47.9	141	54.9	146	60.1	136	59.9	104	51.0	203	72.0	na	na

*Some death information was not searched as the child lived outside the US at time of death.