Here is our weekly update for December 1, 2021.
Wives of Sons and Grandsons
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We’ve collected 10,495 wives of 9,650 sons and
grandsons
# Sons of veteran |
3267 |
# Grandsons of veteran |
6383 |
# Wives of sons and grandsons |
10495 |
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# Veterans complete |
1889 |
Total # veterans |
1962 |
% sample complete |
96.3 |
Update on
Full-count Merging
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Coralee
has been working on the 1940 full count census merging and has discovered more
problems than initially anticipated in merging with our data. Here are the problems she has found:
o The variables that the IPUMS
people suggested merging on aren't in 1940 after all, not in the IPUMS file or
in the GEDCOMs. Coralee has some alternate ideas for merging, but it will take
longer to figure out.
o The mechanical matching of the
names (finding the most similar name on the page) is going to be very
problematic for women with maiden/married names. Coralee thinks she has a way
around this problem, but, again, it will just will take longer.
o The biggest issue is that when she
looks closely at one person in all three places (our sample, the full-count, and
the census manuscript), the variables that we are interested in are null values
in the full-count file, but present on the census manuscript. This is a sample
size of one, she says, so maybe this problem isn't as widespread after all. She
is looking at it closer today.
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Coralee
is also still working on getting occupation codes from 1930. With the amount of
time it will take her to do 1940, she was wondering if maybe it would be better
for the inputters to go back to the manuscripts for 1940 values and input them
in the 1940 screen (or the 1940 section on the obit screen) while she finishes
the 1930 work. However, we realize we
are limited in time before people’s contracts run out.
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