Grandchildren progress report - April 15

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, April 15, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed	309	372	681
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	26	4	30
% Sample Completed	--	--	24.1
Total Grandchildren (including new)	--	--	33593
New Grandchildren Added	406	596	1002
Total Grandchildren Completed	3805	4666	8471
% Grandchildren Completed	--	--	25.22
Birth Dates Added	3786	4593	8379
Death Dates Added	3345	4147	7492
Death Causes Added	634	870	1504
Found 1930	1601	1777	3378
Found 1940	2071	2493	4564
Living Grandchildren	51	61	112
New Living Male-line Great Grandsons Found	88	285	373
New Living Male Greats Found in Last Week	16	5	21
Child Death Causes Added	--	--	105

Total sample = 2826

We didn’t complete 35 RecIds, but we did complete an additional 1% of the sample and have made it to 24.1% of soldiers complete.

We also completed 299 grandchildren. That brings us to 25.22 percent of the total grandchildren complete.

We didn’t quite reach our ambitious goals, but we still did a lot of good work.

Some additional good news. I calculate the percent of grandchildren complete by looking at the total number we’ve done divided by the total number in the database. But we actually have more grandchildren in the database than we committed to completing in our grant proposal. I do this because I didn’t originally know the number from the grant. But also, if we complete all the grandchildren in the database, we’ll have an even more robust sample. And if we lose soldiers in the sample (which we always do), then we’ll still have plenty of grandchildren.

If we use the number from the grant (26,475), then we’ve completed 32% of the grandchildren. Pretty impressive!