Weekly update - October 20, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 20, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         We’ve collected 8,243 wives of 7,566 sons and grandsons.

# Sons of veteran	2565
# Grandsons of veteran	5001
# Wives of sons and grandsons	8243
# Veterans complete	1455
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	74.2

 

 

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee continues to work on the codebook and will assign out more location coding. She is also beginning to make some progress linking 1940.   

MVCC Update

 

·         Giles is working on the report functions for the MVCC screens.

 

New photos - Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado

 Here are some photos I took in Wyoming, Nebraska, and Colorado.

We visited Ayres Natural Bridge near Douglas, Wyoming.

These are the Oregon Trail Ruts. Over years of use, ruts up to about 5 feet deep were carved into the rocks. Sorry, you can't tell how deep they are in the photos.

There are giant cowboy boots all around Cheyenne.

We drove to the summit of what used to be the Lincoln Highway.

Then drove along the Snowy Range Scenic Byway and went on a short hike.

We saw a moose!

We visited Scotts Bluff National Monument. It was here that we began to notice that landmarks in the area were often named for people who died near them. In this case, Hiram Scott was deserted by his companions.

This is part of the original Oregon Trail.

My cousin's cantaloupe plant.

We hung some medals and phots on the wall. This is my great grandfather Abraham.

Some flowers. I think I have this first one oriented wrong, but I kind of like it this way.

We met some rescued otters and a sloth that can paint.

We wandered around Pine Bluffs.

Weekly update - October 13, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 13, 2021.

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         Everyone is back to working on the wives again after work was completed on the Urban set of 50 veterans. 

·         We’ve collected 7,743 wives of 7,102 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	2408
# Grandsons of veteran	4694
# Wives of sons and grandsons	7743
# Veterans complete	1359
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	69.2

 

Grands Progress

·         Coralee is working on the codebook and melding Samples A and B while awaiting word from Matt Nelson to see if he can help with 1940 and the full count merging.

MVCC Update

 

·         After completing an abbreviated version of the mil info to help while we were working on Urban, Giles is now focusing on creating a report function for the MVCC screens.

Weekly update - October 6, 2021

Here is our weekly update for October 6, 2021.

Wives of sons and grandsons

• We’ve collected 7,199 wives of 6,586 sons and grandsons

 

# Sons of veteran	2242
# Grandsons of veteran	4344
# Wives of sons and grandsons	7199
# Veterans complete	1269
Total # veterans	1962
% sample complete	64.7

 

 

Urban

·         We have finished 40 of the 50 Urban veterans so far and have found 80 sons and 46 grandsons.  We will put all the numbers together when we are finished by the end of the week and will include how many have death dates, how many lived to 45 and time per grandson.

Some fun days in October

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

October 2- World Farm Animals Day

October 5- World Teachers' Day

October 11- Sausage Pizza Day

October 13- Train Your Brain Day

October 15- Global Handwashing Day (I hope this holiday is everyday. hahahaha 😂)

October 16- World Food Day

October 19- Evaluate Your Life Day

October 22- Smart is Cool Day

October 25- World Pasta Day

October 26- Pumpkin Day

October 27- Black Cat Day

October 31- Caramel Apple Day & Happy Halloween!