Some flower photos

 Here are a few flower photos.

National Book Festival!

 The twentieth National Book Festival begins today and will last all weekend. In the past, this has been an in-person event including author readings and panels, book signings, and book- and reading-themed activities. I look forward to it every year. Because of the pandemic, the festival has been moved online. It will include both pre-recorded, on-demand sessions and live Q & As. And since it's entirely online, you don't have to be able to get to DC to participate.

Here is a list of participating authors.

The authors present on different stages according to the topics they write about or audiences they write for. Here is the list of stages:

• Children
• Teens
• Family, Food & Field
• Fiction
• Genre Fiction
• History & Biography sponsored by Wells Fargo
• Poetry & Prose sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts
• Science
• Understanding Our World

It's a celebration of reading and ideas. Whenever I've attended, I've gotten to see authors whose work I already read and authors whose work I've yet to discover. It's totally awesome!

New Grands/Greats pilot instructions

 Thanks to Sandy for writing the instructions.

I.                    PRELIMINARY

a.       Put start time down next to soldier

b.      Go to first child and write start time

 

II.                  THE GRANDS

a.       Go to first grand, search and attach 1930 and 1940 to the tree if not already there

b.      Mark the log accordingly for 1930 and 1940 (X, NF, D), if not already marked

c.       Find the WWII draft card if the grand is a male and attach to tree.

d.      Open the image of draft card and enter the height (converted to inches) and weight (pounds) for the male grand on the log. Note: the index doesn’t always include the fraction of inches so you’ll have to open the image.   

 

III.                THE GREATS

a.       Add the Spouse of Grand

                                                               i.      Follow the grand to see if married with any children (greats)

                                                             ii.      Add spouse of grand to the tree and to the grid if they had children

                                                            iii.      Add CHID to the tree for the spouse of grand

                                                           iv.      See if hints give birth and death for spouse and save to tree, but don’t search unless it becomes necessary to find an obituary for the spouse to lead you to the greats

b.      Add Greats on Tree and Grid

                                                               i.      Add any greats to the tree

                                                             ii.      Add greats to the grid.

                                                            iii.      Make sure each great has 2 parents’ relcodes, with the first parent being the descendant of the veteran.

                                                           iv.      Enter CHIDS for greats on the tree

c.       Find and Record Info For Greats

                                                               i.      Search for birth and death for greats.

                                                             ii.      Save any WWII drafts from hints to the greats.

                                                            iii.      Enter in log the number of male greats and female greats for each grand

                                                           iv.      Enter in log the number of WWII draft cards found for the male greats

d.      When finished with the set of greats for one grand, go to the next grand

e.      When all grands and greats are finished for one child, go to next child and record the time

IV.                Finishing

a.       Download all your completed family trees

b.      Send the completed log and GEDCOMs to Heather

 

A note about WWII draft cards: There is an issue for old man’s draft cards (for men born between 1877 -1897) from the following states: DE, MD, PA, WV.  They were microfilmed with a back and front of the card in one image, but the two sides do not go together.  You have to get the front of the card from the first image and click on the following image (clicking on the arrow to the right of your card) to get the back side that corresponds to your guy.

 

 

 

First image

ALGERON Sidney Jenkins is the top card in this image

 

 The bottom card is NOT Algernon

Subsequent image

The top card is Allen Albert Jenkins’ front card

The bottom card is ALGERNON JENKINS back card

Nebraska death index

 As you all know, getting death information has been hard (or impossible) for individuals who died in Nebraska. It's just gotten a little easier. Irene has added a link to The Nebraska Death Index to her death indexes spreadsheet. Here is Irene's description: 1904-1955 is a browsable digitized index and 1956-1968 is a searchable database.

So, obviously this doesn't solve all the problems we had finding death information, but it helps.

Grandchildren progress report - September 16

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, September 16, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	508	458	966
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	42	41	83
% Sample Completed	--	--	52.8
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			69.5
Total Grandchildren Sample B (including new)	--	--	22053
New Grandchildren Added	534	497	1031
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	6434	6206	12640
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample A	--	--	12643
% Grandchildren Completed of 26,475 (as promised in grant)	--	--	95.5
Birth Dates Added	6391	6175	12566
Death Dates Added	5840	5674	11514
Living Grandchildren	61	48	109

Sample B = 1827               Total Sample (A & B) = 2826

Grandchildren progress report - September 9

Here is our progress on the Grandchildren sample as of yesterday, September 9, 2020.

Grandchildren Sample B	POW	Non-POW	Total
Total RecIds Completed Sample B	466	458	924
RecIds Completed in the Last Week	42	58	100
% Sample Completed	--	--	50.6
RecIds Completed Sample A			999
Percent of TOTAL Sample (A & B) Complete			68
Total Grandchildren (including new)	--	--	22005
New Grandchildren Added	464	467	931
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample B	5860	5607	11467
Total Grandchildren Completed Sample A	--	--	12643
% Grandchildren Completed of 26,475 (as promised in grant)	--	--	91
Birth Dates Added	5828	5577	11405
Death Dates Added	5325	5123	10448
Living Grandchildren	58	45	103

Sample B = 1827               Total Sample (A & B) = 2826

For our goal this week, let's try for 100 soldiers. We will probably be temporarily reassigning a couple of people to do some pilot work for the new grant. That will slow our progress a little on the grandchildren sample.