Weekly update - May 26, 2021

Here is our weekly update for May 26, 2021.

Grandchildren Sample

·         Draft card progress:

o   We will finish inputting draft cards for Sample B tomorrow.

 

	Sample A	Sample B
Found	4950	8958
Total searched	6471	11,757
Link rate (Total searched)	76.5%	76.2%
Dead before draft	765	1520
Already in service	56	77
Living outside country	25	30
Too young (or not born)	221	194
H/W blank on draft card or enlistment card	96	141
Draft records unavailable/destroyed	27	90
Too old	2	41
NF -- any other reason	329	706
TOTAL NF	1521	2799
% of Total grandsons searched	100%	99.8%

Extra 1,067 Sons Sample

·         Noelle, Irene, Janice, and AnnaLisa have begun work on the 172 veterans, completing 68 of them.

MVCC Screens

·         Giles is just about finished with 1900 after more testing turned up some issues between the census decade and the household view.  We are closing in on completing 1900 and then she will be able to copy much of the work into the other decades. 

Weekly update - May 19, 2021

Here is our weekly update for May 19, 2021.

Grandchildren Sample

·         Draft cards

	Sample A	Sample B
Found	4950	8618
Total searched	6471	11,336
Link rate (Total searched)	76.5%	76.0%
Dead before draft	765	1474
Already in service	56	76
Living outside country	25	30
Too young (or not born)	221	190
H/W blank on draft card or enlistment card	96	136
Draft records unavailable/destroyed	27	90
Too old	2	41
NF -- any other reason	329	681
TOTAL NF	1521	2718
% of Total grandsons searched	100%	96.2%

 

Extra 1,067 Sons sample

·         Noelle, Irene, and Janice have begun work on the 172 veterans, completing 42 of them.

A couple of pics (not flowers)

 Thanks to Janice for sharing the following photos.

You might remember that recently this impressive dessert came up in conversation during our weekly meeting. It's a floating island. I hope you're not hungry!

I don't know how many of you know Dr. Wimmer, but even if you don't remember him he's responsible (at least indirectly) for you all having jobs. While a professor of economics at BYU, he did the hiring of interns for the EI Project. He hired Noelle. He hired me. He's friends with Janice. Here he is with the model of Stonehenge he constructed on a beach in Lyme Regis. He's more creative than I am. I would have just looked for fossils.

Springtime in VA and MD

 Here are some more flower photos and a few that were taken along the C & O Canal towpath. Springtime is beautiful!

    Can you see the cicada and it's discarded exoskeleton? Brood X is beginning to emerge after 17 years underground.