Mothers of male-line great grandsons

Dora has asked us to do some additional work on our families. This is in preparation for the GREAT GRANDCHILDREN sample. It is important to know information about both the father and mother. The health of the mother impacts the health of the child.

This ONLY applies if there is a great grandson through the male line (whether living or not). Dora wants us to get birth and death information for the mothers of the great grandsons. To do this, you will:

      • Check your tree to see if there are great grandsons descended through the son and grandson of the soldier.
            o Noelle does this by keeping the soldier’s surname in mind. If the great grandchild is male and has the same last name as the soldier, then you know you have a great grandson through the male line.

      • If the answer is yes, you will add the wife of the grandson to the grid (that is the mother of the great grandson).

      • You will then create a death screen for that mother.
            o Add her name and gender.
            o If you find them in the hints, add the birth and death information to the screen.

      • DO NOT spend very much time doing this.

Please start doing this today (that would be yesterday, 10/31/2019 when I sent you the original email). Note on your log which RecId you’re working on, so that I know where we started searching for moms of great grandsons. You might say something like (on the soldier line) “began great grandson moms 10/31/2019.”

There is no need to add these moms to the input log.