Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Progress report and link rates

Here is our progress as of today, November 28, 2018. We have fewer than 1,000 Project 2 soldiers left to complete.


Project 1
Project 2 - USCT

n = 8,500
n = 4,500
Total soldiers complete
9343
4388
Soldiers completed during last  2 weeks
0
15
Soldiers w/o children (to be removed from sample)
843
826
% of completed soldiers w/o children
9.0
18.8
Soldiers with children complete
8500
3562
% with children complete
100
79.2
# soldiers with children left to complete
0
938


Here are the link rates for the soldiers and children in each of the three Project 1 samples. The link rate tells you how successful we were at finding the individual in the census or death records. As you can see, we did a pretty good job linking the soldiers and their children to their records.


Project 1 Link Rates - Soldiers

Non-Pow White




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL
9343
70
75
77
80
90
95
95
92
94
81
99.9

POW




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL
1997
19
78
77
80
91
94
94
92
85
27
99.4

Andersonville Brothers




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL
197
8
87
82
85
90
96
96
95
67
NA
97.9



Project 1 Link Rates - Children

Non-POW White




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL CHILDREN
45010
4241
61
80
83
87
78
75
73
71
61
78
SONS
23012
2417
58
81
83
87
79
76
75
74
65
81
DAUGHTERS
21998
1824
64
80
83
87
78
73
71
67
58
75
DAUGHTERS - MAR
3274
77
72
82
86
91
87
86
84
82
70
81
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR
18724
1747
61
80
83
86
76
71
68
64
55
74

POW




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH DATE FOUND
ALL CHILDREN
9236
893
49
78
84
88
79
75
74
71
63
81
SONS
4729
492
44
76
85
88
79
76
77
75
66
84
DAUGHTERS
4507
401
55
81
83
88
79
74
72
68
60
78
DAUGHTERS - MAR
568
8
83
88
86
93
87
86
84
82
73
83
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR
3939
393
51
80
83
87
78
72
70
66
58
77

Andersonville Brothers




% FOUND

TOTAL #
# NOT FOUND ANY YEAR
1850
1860
1870
1880
1900
1910
1920
1930
1940
DEATH
ALL CHILDREN
668
50
78
91
84
88
75
70
69
65
55
65
SONS
356
26
75
94
83
90
77
75
74
70
61
68
DAUGHTERS
312
24
80
86
85
87
73
65
63
59
49
61
DAUGHTERS - MAR
36
2
NA
NA
100
92
83
81
80
78
69
67
DAUGHTERS NOT MAR
276
22
80
86
83
86
72
63
61
56
46
61