Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Make sure the children from the Mil Info are added to the Grid

In continuing my task of matching children on the Grid with children from the Mil Info, I came across the following.

I was able to match 9 children on the Grid with 9 children on the Mil Info. There was one more child on the Grid, Jesse M born in about 1877. There was also one more child on the Mil Info, Arthur born in 1886. The inputter seems to have decided that Jesse and Arthur were the same child. They were not. Jesse had died before the veteran filled out his family circular in 1898, so his name was not listed in the Mil Info. In 1900, the veteran's spouse said that she had 12 children and 9 were still alive. In all likelihood, Jesse and Arthur (he was not on the 1900 census with his family) are dead brothers.

Please don't assume that just because you've found 10 children in the census and there are 10 children in the Mil Info that they are the same 10 children. They might not be. Before marking the MilIN? button, make sure the information you have in the Mil Info matches (or nearly matches or somewhat matches) what you've found in the census or other records. There is no reason to assume that Jesse and Arthur are the same child. Nothing in the census or Mil Info supports that assumption.

In this case, a child from the Mil Info (Arthur) was left off the Grid. This is a major inputter error.

1 comment:

  1. Wow,something to be extra vigilant about. Thanks for the warning.

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