Weekly update - April 21, 2021

 Here is our weekly update for April 21, 2021.

Grandchildren Sample

·         Draft card progress:

	Sample A	Sample B
Found	4950	6873
Total searched	6471	9049
Link rate (Total searched)	76.5%	76%
Dead before draft	765	1187
Already in service	56	66
Living outside country	25	17
Too young (or not born)	221	159
H/W blank on draft card or enlistment card	96	115
Draft records unavailable/destroyed	27	60
Too old	2	34
NF -- any other reason	329	538
TOTAL NF	1521	2176
% of Total grandsons searched	100%	76.9%

 

·         AnnaLisa has been coding death causes this week. Except for a few loose ends that need to be tied up, Irene has finished coding occupations.

·         Data collection has slowed because of traveling, coding, and screen testing.

MVCC Progress

·         Deleting households and individuals is in testing, and Giles expects the release to happen this week. Planning has begun for the census pages. Currently, the expected order is to begin with 1900, then do the rest of the 1900s pages in order, then go back and do 1850-1880.  

Traveling and COVID:

·         Sandy is still traveling but will be back tomorrow afternoon. 

·         One more of us has gotten her first vaccine shot. Those of us who are fully vaccinated are feeling pretty good because the infection rate among 77 million fully vaccinated people is less than 0.008 percent. That is a total 5,800 infections. Among the general population there are around 68,000 infections per day. (CDC as reported on CNN and Washington Post)