Thursday, December 2, 2021

Weekly update - December 1, 2021

Here is our weekly update for December 1, 2021. 

Wives of Sons and Grandsons

·         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

 

 

# Veterans complete

1889

Total # veterans

1962

% sample complete

96.3

 

Update on Full-count Merging

·         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.

 

·         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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