Weekly update - May 5, 2021

Here is our weekly update for May 5, 2021.

Grandchildren Sample

·         Draft card progress:

	Sample A	Sample B
Found	4950	7824
Total searched	6471	10,301
Link rate (Total searched)	76.5%	76%
Dead before draft	765	1358
Already in service	56	73
Living outside country	25	27
Too young (or not born)	221	172
H/W blank on draft card or enlistment card	96	127
Draft records unavailable/destroyed	27	74
Too old	2	36
NF -- any other reason	329	610
TOTAL NF	1521	2477
% of Total grandsons searched	100%	87.5%

 

·         Anna Lisa completed death cause coding this week.

·         Coralee has been in communication with NBER to access the full count census. 

Extra 1,067 Sons sample

·         Of the 342 veterans in this sample, 170 of them were already completed in the grandchildren sample.

·         Noelle has begun work on the remaining 172 veterans, completing 14 of them.

o   She will continue working on this and testing the instructions before everyone else starts working on it in the next couple of weeks.

MVCC Progress

·         Giles is just tweaking the last visual effects on 1900, the first of the census decades ready to go.  Once testing is complete, she will begin working on screens for the other census years.