I had a question about the Mil Info this week. There was not much in the Mil Info for a particular soldier. The inputter found a document from the soldiers home that had information she thought was about her soldier (she was correct). She wanted to know if she could use this document as Mil Info for purposes of increasing the soldier's (HH 0) quality code, since it is a "military document." The answer is no.
When we collected our original samples of soldiers, we selected a bunch of companies and input the pension records and other military documents for each soldier. What you see as Mil Info comes from the pension record. Because of how we collected the sample, we know the information in the pension is for the soldier we want to link to the census. Therefore, we use ONLY that information to assign quality codes for a soldier's household. It doesn't have anything to do with the pension information being military information.
Sometimes, you'll have a soldier that has next to nothing in the Mil Info. If that happens, you may ask me if I can provide you with "extra information" to supplement the Mil Info. This happens in cases where the pension is at the VA, so we couldn't access it, or the pension went missing from the Archives. The extra information that I provide comes from the pension index and often includes death date and place or widow's name. The pension index is information that is included in the pension. Therefore, it is considered Mil Info and can be used in matching and assigning quality codes.
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