December checking statistics

December 2016 checking statistics

In December, we checked 42 soldiers under our 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? - 2

Missing HH member - 12 (this number tripled!)

Duplicate people - 0

Wrong person - 1

Other - 13

Inferred Relationships

Incorrect relationships - 8 (this number dropped by half)

Census Errors

Name - 44 (too high!)

Typo/Reading/Wrong - 126 (this number went up)

State Code - 0

Missing/Wrong URL - 3

Missing data - 35

Additional finds - 20

Quality Code - 17

Death Errors

Typo/Reading/Wrong - 24 (this number nearly tripled)

Missing data - 32

Missing/Wrong URL/Source - 17

Quality Code - 3

Additional finds - 9

Tree Errors

Missing/Incorrect information/relationships - 7

The total number of differences for all 42 soldiers is 373. This is 77 more differences than November, when we checked 48 soldiers. Some differences/errors affect the data more than others. If we checked other pensions, we'd probably find similar differences. So, in December you checked fewer soldiers than in the previous month but increased your errors. Let's see if we can reduce these differences in 2017.