Grandchildren progress report - January 22

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, January 22, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed	122	213	335
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	4	19	23
% Sample Completed	--	--	11.9
Total Grandchildren (including new)	--	--	33209
New Grandchildren Added	184	346	530
Total Grandchildren Completed	--	--	4364
% Grandchildren Completed	--	--	13.14
Birth Dates Added	1600	2675	4275
Death Dates Added	1372	2446	3818
Death Causes Added	273	472	745
Found 1930	710	1135	1845
Found 1940	864	1489	2353
Living Grandchildren	32	24	56
New Living Male-line Great Grandsons Found	38	139	177
New Living Male Greats Found in Last Week	2	4	6
Child Death Causes Added	--	--	64

Total Sample = 2826

NY historic newspapers

Sandy found a new resource that she's had some good luck using. I'm sure we've all had trouble finding information on families who were born, lived, or died in New York state. Sandy found a link allowing access to historic New York newspapers.

Here's what she had to say about it: It allows you to search for names and counties or all counties, date range and combination of words. For example, I searched for Hattie Flanders in all counties between 1940 and 1950 and got like 36 results.  But then I typed "Hattie Flanders died" and I got the obituary (instead of all the social gossip articles).  Very cool!

Here's the link: https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/