Weekly update - August 18, 2021

Here is our weekly update for August 18, 2021. 

Wives of sons and grandsons

·         We’ve collected 4,111 wives of 3,753 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	1284
# Grandsons of veteran	2469
# Wives of sons and grandsons	4111
# Veterans complete	723
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	36.9

 

 

MVCC Progress

·         Giles has updated the relevant Stata scripts and the MVCC website so that mil info and census info from .dat files can be transformed into the grid in the MVCC system.  She has begun working on a feature to present the old mil info so that it can be accessed from the grid.

Urban Collection

With the Urban data uploaded into the screens and with the new ability to create the grid, Noelle is going back to input the obit information for the Urban sample of 16 veterans and their sons and grandsons.  With the census data now visible in the screens to help populate the trees, more death dates are being found.  We will provide an updated spreadsheet when the work is complete.

Weekly update - August 4, 2021

Here is our weekly update for August 4, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 3,169 wives of 2,910 sons and grandsons

·         182 grandsons do not have wives

 

# Sons of veteran	1002
# Grandsons of veteran	1908
# Wives of sons and grandsons	3169
# Veterans complete	569
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	29

 

 

Urban Collection

 

·         Noelle has been working on researching/linking the Urban RECIDNUMS that Dora gave her to find death information. She is about half way through the list.

 

·         Coralee, Giles and Noelle are coordinating efforts to come up with a method to collect the urban death information. They plan to either collect it directly from the GEDCOM or upload the urban data from the original collection into the new database so that we can input data on the death screens. However, there are complications to both methods that they are working to resolve.

 

·         It is difficult to preserve the family relationships when the data is extracted from the GEDCOM without first assigning CHIDS to family members on the tree.  The problem is that the CHIDS come through the database which, to date, we have been unsuccessful at loading.

Some fun days in August

Thanks to AnnaLisa for giving us information on special days to celebrate this month.

August 2- Coloring Book Day 

August 6- Root Beer Float Day

August 8- International Cat Day

August 9- Melon Day

August 12- World Elephant Day

August 15- Lemon Meringue Pie Day

August 17- Thrift Shop Day

August 21- Poet's Day

August 24- International Strange Music Day

August 26- Women's Equality Day

August 29- More Herbs, Less Salt Day

If you do some coloring (8/2) or write some poetry (8/21), you can send me the results, and I'll post them to the blog. We always want to support each other's creative endeavors.